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 ...

A seventh person has been arrested as part of an investigation into modern slavery and sexual exploitation in part of Sheffield. Police said they arrested a 39-year-old woman on suspicion of modern ...

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.

Maryland lawmakers have approved a measure to create a commission to study and recommend potential benefits as reparations ...

BLACK ENTERPRISE welcomes International Black Women’s History Month by shining a light on these books created Black women ...