Not too long ago, Dr. Bastian Felter Vaucanson, an assistant professor in church history from Denmark, contacted me. In his ...

A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to ...

Growing up, Dominique Williams visited her grandmother every weekend. And on each trip, she was greeted by a piece of her past, a name stitched in fabric, filled with centuries of legacy and mystery. ...

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when enslaved men and women in Texas found out they were free. But liberation didn't arrive ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - According to a recent study, 37% of the Columbus population was enslaved by 1860. The history behind slavery is a very dark history, from being chained, whipped, raped, and ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia ...

I have a message for President Donald Trump, his administration and anyone who hopes the world will forget what happened in this country. Slavery in the United States was a brutal and dehumanizing ...

As the cotton harvest approaches, its success hinges on Bajans’ willingness to unify their economic potential and the historical weight of slavery—and the trauma they carry. The Bajan government, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donald Trump’s war on history appears to have widened, with The Washington Post reporting that his administration has ordered the ...

It is beyond comprehension that President Donald Trump complained in a Truth Social post that the Smithsonian Institution portrays slavery as a bad thing (“White House orders Smithsonian review to ...

Bob Miller knows he’s tilting at windmills. For the past year, the retired Atlanta attorney has tried to get the University System of Georgia to erase a blot on the heart of UGA’s campus: Rutherford ...