Two House Democrats suggested during a Tuesday livestream that President Donald Trump is attempting to bring Black people ...

they serve as portals into "the lived experience of slavery." For instance, countering the "Lost Cause" myth that enslaved ...

Nearly 160 years after slavery was abolished in the United States, House Democrats Jasmine Crockett and Hank Johnson ...

During the height of slavery in the 1800s, enslaved African people were treated as legal property and commodities, bought and ...

A teacher and descendant of slaves, Clark was ostracized during ... when most of his relatives worked in cotton fields on family land in Holmes County. As a small child, he would sit by the ...

Viewers “awake” to see their outstretched legs on the ground of a dirt-floor shack, before “blinking” and reappearing in a field, holding a basket of cotton, as other enslaved people toil ...

We can begin with slavery, since that’s where it began ... Stealing African people from their homeland to work for free in the cotton fields for over 200 years was the only way the cotton ...

“Fig” Newton, a great-grandson of slaves, grew up on a South Carolina ... the 332nd Fighter Group based at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama — shattered the race barrier during World ...

When Black people were brought to the United States as slaves, it was to work as farmers ... who had a long history with growing rice and cotton in Africa. Daboiku grew up in Ironton, in ...