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

Recognizable clothing labels, like Levis, and mass produced silk-screened tee-shirts contextualize the clothes in the present ...

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

Robert G. Clark, who was elected in 1967 as Mississippi's first Black lawmaker of the 20th century and rose to the ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the ...

Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings.

Nantes, a city that prospered from maritime trade but for more than a century it was also France’s largest slave-trading port. Today the city is acknowledging this with one of Europe’s most ...

We were in the American South and no one protected us. When the cotton was in the field, we couldn’t go to school. When I was 3, I had to carry the water dipper and my 7-year-old sister carried ...

As Severance season 2 enters the home stretch, we've finally been formally introduced to Burt's (Christopher Walken) husband, Fields, now played by John Noble. We first saw Fields in season 1 ...

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., discusses several topics on ‘The Will Cain Show,’ including negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.

Other paintings depict his great-aunt picking cotton. When he was old enough, Rembert joined her working in the fields. He missed a lot of schooling and fell far behind, so he busied himself in ...