Between 1632 and 1760, records show that 734 Indigenous children were enslaved in France's North American colony, historian ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program ...

Featuring a stellar cast that bridges Nollywood and international film circuits—Bolanle Ninalowo, Tobi Bakre, Fathia Balogun, ...

The first documented Africans to arrive in the English-speaking colony of what would become Virginia, arrived in August 1619 on the “White Lion,” a Dutch man-of-war ship carrying enslaved cargo ...

Clotilda Descendants Association holds annual Landing celebration, commemorating the arrival of the last group of Africans ...

In 1979, UNESCO named Elmina Castle a World Heritage Site for its central role in the transatlantic slave trade. Because of ...

These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...

In a bold legal test, California legislators are advancing bills that would benefit descendants of enslaved people without ...

The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in Galveston at the end of the Civil War. General Order No. 3 declared that ...

He came for a degree in 1981 – he stayed through revolutions, economic collapse, and now war. Meet Aniki Johnson, the ...

Over a period of two centuries until 1834, eight generations of Drax ancestors owned and worked hundreds of enslaved African captives at any one time. The latest beneficiary of primogeniture ...