Part genealogy study, part haunting narrative, historian Mary Frances Berry’s new book, “Slavery After Slavery: ...

The last time a newly sworn president used his inaugural address to announce that he would aggressively seek to increase ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a famous book under the title Why We Can’t Wait.  Besides addressing the crime of slavery ...

Representative Ayanna Pressley has reintroduced HR 40, a bill to establish a federal reparations commission for Black ...

Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

Some reparations advocates are strategizing on how to protect their programs from legal threats, which they say are ...

Many people are shocked and saddened at how badly Harvard has stumbled in its efforts to reveal and repair the legacy of slavery at Harvard.  These stumbles may in fact be the most eloquent expression ...

Kidnapped and trafficked from modern-day Sierra Leone to Havana on a ... contested story of slavery down to the scale of ...

The critiques of figures like Garvey, Carmichael, Newton, and Baldwin remind us of historical patterns of resistance and ...

Why has slavery, the dehumanisation of Africans for three hundred years, remained a case of an African heritage? Why is the world not acknowledging the need to, first, have a day set aside to ...

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