The U.N. General Assembly's resolution also urges “the prompt and unhindered restitution” of cultural items to their countries of origin without charge.

Nations will vote on whether to designate the slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity".

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is removing a rare slave ship timber from its Slavery and Freedom ...

On Wednesday, the leaders of Libya, France, Germany, Chad and Niger and four other countries agreed on a plan to evacuate thousands of migrants stuck in Libyan detention camps. The grainy undercover ...

She was very much ahead of her time… this is a formerly enslaved Black woman who was speaking with an unfettered, unrestrained radicalism.” ...

The museum acquired the collection, the largest and most complete set of Charleston slave badges, in 2022. 146 slave badges from Charleston, South Carolina. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian ...

The transatlantic slave trade is a painful part of world history. It represents one of the largest forced migrations, displacing 12.5 million Africans from their homelands. The trade was also ...

At the Tate Modern museum in London, they've just reopened after the coronavirus lockdown, to discover that the installation – thought to be bold when it first opened in the museum's enormous entrance ...

Former slave and American philhellene James Williams fought in the Greek War of Independence for the freedom of Greece and ...