There is an exciting new addition on display at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, ...

More than 100 U.S. leaders — lawmakers, presidents, governors and justices — have slaveholding ancestors, a Reuters examination found. Few are willing to talk about it.

Though slavery was abolished in 1865, ... many Freedmen had little choice but to return to the plantations by the end of the 1860s. Their motives for this were mixed.

For the first time in its 166-year history, The Atlantic magazine will publish a new feature-length play: The Ghost of Slavery by Anna Deavere Smith. Continue to Deadline SKIP AD You will be ...

The actor makes a man who fled from slavery—and whose scarred back was famously photographed in the 1860s—into an implausible action-movie hero.

Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th century. Tragically, the ...

At the peak of black slavery in the South, only 6 percent of Southern whites owned slaves. If you include the white people in the North, it means that only 1.4 percent of white Americans owned ...

Former President Biden spoke out against efforts to erase history during a Juneteenth speech in Texas, while President Trump did not formally recognize the holiday and expressed concern about having ...

The U.S. Constitution bans slavery except as punishment for a crime. A growing number of states have tried to address this in their own constitutions, but prisoners say the only change is on paper.

In “The American Daughters” the central characters are enslaved women (this time in 1860s New Orleans), ... Ady’s mom, who was not born into slavery, has other ideas.

I am amazed by the activities of Black civic leaders and politicians of the 1860s. Slavery ended in Tennessee Feb. 22, 1865, and 2,452 people in Knox County voted to abolish it. Since supporters ...

During a May 2018 interview with TMZ, West made one of his most controversial statements about slavery. "When you hear about slavery for 400 years," he said. "For 400 years? That sounds like a choice.