On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

The exhibition will examine life on Caribbean plantations and the ways African people and their descendants resisted ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West, shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the shipwreck and ...

By Dan Ouellette In officially opening the Hamptons JazzFest’s winter season, composer and environmental sound artist Mary ...

The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum in Peterboro announces its fifth year of Black History Matters with the 2025 ...

Florida is a fascinating, beautiful, and sweltering state. It’s a prime location for beaches and holidays. But it is also a ...

Libyan authorities have discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 28 sub-Saharan migrants in the southeastern district ...

Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...

The Irish nationalist was caught in the fault lines between empire and nation, colonised and coloniser, public face and ...