A church connected to Lucy and Lois, documented as the final two enslaved people sold in New Haven in 1825, recently held a ...

Virginia unveils a new historical marker honoring Belleville, a community in Suffolk founded by William Saunders Crowdy, a ...

A Maryland bill to create a commission to study and recommend future reparations for slavery and racial discrimination is ...

What is the story of Passover, What are its various traditions and rules, And just what dates will it be taking place this ...

A seventh person has been arrested as part of an investigation into modern slavery and sexual exploitation in part of ...

A 39-year-old woman has become the seventh person to be arrested, as part of an ongoing investigation into modern slavery and ...

Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “ 40 acres and a mule ” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

Jane Kamensky is the president and CEO of Monticello and the author of “A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton ...

After meetings held in Buffalo, Albany, Rochester, and Southeast Queens, the Bronx is set to host the next New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies (CCRR) hearing.

In the early 1800s, Richard Riker, a descendant of the family who owned Rikers Island, participated in a kidnapping ring for decades.

The votes were cast, the session was adjourned and Del. Aletheia McCaskill still was absorbing what had happened: Maryland lawmakers approved creating a commission to study reparations for slavery.