A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to ...

The Christian college is building a memorial to enslaved people, despite a national backlash against diversity initiatives.

The legacy of slavery and the century of legalized exclusion and oppression that followed continues to affect Black Americans ...

Slavery lasted for approximately 246 years from 1619 to 1865. In addition to that, there were 12 years of R econstruction and 91 years of J im Crowism (legalized discrimination). It is estimated that ...

The Center for Brooklyn History's "Trace/s" exhibition reveals the history of slavery in Brooklyn, shedding light on the ...

Linsey Davis interviews Lee Hawkins, a journalist, about his searing new memoir, "I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My ...

The members of Govans took a step on that journey at a worship service last weekend when they celebrated the unveiling of a ...

Although “I Am Nobody’s Slave” takes the form of a memoir, Minnesota native Lee Hawkins’ book becomes something bigger: an ...

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

An alliance of Jesuits and descendants of those the order once enslaved aims to achieve restorative justice by modeling terms ...

The Lest We Forget Museum of Slavery features shackles, chains and other painful relics of the transatlantic slave trade.

“Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it. By Jennifer Schuessler ...