The Trump Administration recently cut funding to the 400 Years of African American History Commission. Another cut targeted the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana and its planned exhibit on resistance to ...

AFAMAIN copy 39088019733963 Purchased from the Warren M. Robbins Library Endowment. Contents Introduction: wounded pasts: memory of slavery and African heritage in Brazil / Ana Lucia Araujo -- ...

Brazil has finally started hearing very public demands for reparations for its role in slavery. Brazil received more slaves from Africa than any other place did. But the country has struggled to have ...

SAO PAULO — Brazil’s labor court on Friday ordered Volkswagen to pay 165 million reais (about $30 million) for collective moral damages after workers were subjected to slave-like conditions at a ...

In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside.