From the first Black president to the first African-American woman ever elected to the United States Congress, Black people ...

Several years before the Civil War broke out, William Cooper Nell, a Boston-born abolitionist and journalist, dedicated himself to an unheard-of task.

Along West Africa's slave coast, a painful past is being preserved — and marketed — raising questions about memory, tourism and profit.

The museum is now telling the story of George Jackson, the first Black man known to live in Plymouth. Jackson arrived in the ...

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.

Explore the vibrant culture and history of Senegal, West Africa. Discover the resilience of the Senegalese people and the haunting legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

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.

When Napoleon Bonaparte embarked upon a military expedition to Egypt in 1798, he took with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental Description de ...

President Trump is attempting to reverse the progress made towards racial equality by Martin Luther King Jr. by eliminating ...

With fewer crowds and cooler temperatures, January can be the perfect time to visit South Carolina’s historic port city, as ...

The first publicly recognized Black priest in the United States, Augustus Tolton, may not be a household name. Yet I believe his story – from being born enslaved to becoming a college valedictorian – ...

The man accused of squirting an unknown substance on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall in Minneapolis has a criminal history and made online posts supportive of President Donald Trump ...