Protesters rallied in front of Baltimore's City Hall on Monday, calling on city leaders to eliminate Johns Hopkins University's private police force. The Baltimore Abolition Movement (BAM) says more ...

In 1796, when slavery remained both legal and common in New York, a white man named Aquila Giles set out to free Hannah, a 30-year-old woman he enslaved, and her daughter, Abigail, who was about 5.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel Walker Howe has died at 88. A spokesperson at UCLA confirmed he died Dec. 25.

Leftist groups like the DSA were planning mass protests focused on opposing the U.S. capture of Nicolas Maduro. Then, the ICE ...

A year-end reflection on women whose activism from abolitionism to home schooling made a lasting impact, locally and on a national level.

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

Let us thank the Almighty if we are ever caught short on the City Rd because, due to the good works of the venerable Thomas Crapper and the venerable John Wesley, relief and consolation for both body ...

New York City is preparing to welcome Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and member of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, into office as mayor. Ahead of the highly anticipated ...

This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

There is one crucial argument that the climate justice movement carried with it. For a brief period of time, it seemed like it was integrated into the general knowledge of social movements. It wasn’t.

Nepal’s post-Gen Z uprising marks a historic break from past political shifts, creating a rare opportunity to finally align ...