Kidnapped from West Africa as a child and brought to Boston, Wheatley became the first African-American woman published in ...

For genealogists, President Barack Obama's family tree is the gift that keeps on giving. The connection to Punch, an indentured servant condemned to slavery in 1640, comes from Obama's mother's side ...

About two dozen people gathered at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Sunday, Aug. 25, for one of America’s most somber anniversaries. Churches throughout the United States rang their bells for four ...

The historic church, located on Beach City Road, was originally founded in 1862 with a congregation of about 120 formerly enslaved people.

For many thousands, it was the last glimpse of Africa. Through a door, made narrow so that they would have to walk through in single file, Africans trudged out of the darkness of Ghana’s Elmina Castle ...

CU Boulder’s Henry Lovejoy updates LiberatedAfricans.org, which highlights a largely forgotten period of time in the history of African diaspora For Henry Lovejoy, an associate professor of history at ...

In Unbroken Chains: a 5000 year history of African enslavement (Hurst, 2025) former BBC Africa Editor, Martin Plaut, provides ...

HAMPTON, Va. — June 19, 1865 marks the day the last enslaved Black people learned they were emancipated from the Confederacy. Now a national holiday, Juneteenth offers a moment to celebrate freedom ...

Vice President Kamala Harris bungled a history lesson about the Juneteenth holiday Monday, telling kids that black people were enslaved in America for 400 years — overstating the actual time period by ...

Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...

A special committee of the African Union and Caribbean Community, together representing 75 countries, endorsed the demand that European states should pay reparations for “historical mass crimes.” ...