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

One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...

A group of Minneapolis police officers and Black residents explored history museums and historic sites in Alabama detailing ...

Foster navigated the Clotilda, now carrying 108 slaves, into the port of Mobile, Alabama under cover of ... research of their own into the family history. “I had no idea she’d been on the ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

He draws on historical data, oral history interviews ... Hawkins started researching I Am Nobody’s Slave, his father began to open up about his Alabama childhood. His father wanted to let ...

HAWKINS: My father was raised in Greenville, Alabama; in 1948 he was ... "I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free," is available right now.

A proposal to give prosecutors the option of seeking the death penalty in child rape cases cleared a state House committee in ...

History was littered with accounts that soft-pedaled the brutality of slavery, making it seem like ... example — as detailed in legislation in Alabama — teaching that a person is “inherently ...