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

Captain Jack Sparrow's beloved ship is one of the most recognizable pirate vessels in cinema, and it's based on a real type ...

Suspected Somali pirates have seized a Yemeni fishing boat off the Horn of Africa. A European naval operation in the Mideast, known as EUNAVFOR Atalanta, said late Monday the incident remained under ...

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 ...

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

The often-forgotten contributions of Black Georgian and Victorian people will be told in an exhibition about the fight to end ...

The ferry operator pulled his large flatboat to the edge of the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. He watched and listened ...

Celebrating Black history by visiting one of these seven Black museums is one the Blackest things you could do for Black History Month.

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...

At the Follow Your Roots dinner in New York City, five Black chefs cooked with ingredients that define the African Diaspora.

AP investigative reporter Helen Wieffering built on her previous reporting experience to tell the story of a seafarer stranded on an abandoned ship, part ...

Students are working to build a database of names and biographies of 800 enslaved people who belonged to the Cobb-Lamar ...