Our Legacies of Enslavement team has found humanity and dignity, not blame or guilt, are at the heart of the conversation ...

As the United Nations recognises the transatlantic slave trade as a crime and calls for reparations, a growing ‘global diasporic movement’ is pushing for action ...

A 1789 book sparked abolitionist sentiment by describing the brutality of the slave trade. But today the story tells us so much more than that. There is a painting in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum ...

As the first ReImagine Lefferts artist-in-residence, Brooklyn artist Adama Delphine Fawundu honors the 25 individuals enslaved at the historical house in her installation "Ancestral Whispers" (2024). ...

Slavery is a despicable institution. Sadly, it is also an ancient and persistent institution. It has existed since time immemorial and is still in existence today in certain parts of the world.

Artwork by Dawn Spears (Narragansett). "What it Was Before" (2022)(Stolen Relations/Brown University via The Public's Radio) Brown University history professor Mack Scott grew up Indigenous in Rhode ...

This is an opinion column. Henry Highland Garnet. I’d never heard of him, either. I discovered his intriguing journey of escape from enslavement, survival, and faith while doing research for the 100th ...

Dressed in his iconic turtleneck, Steve Jobs began his 2007 Apple keynote, “Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” I remember the energy that year as my ...

This article was adapted from an interview conducted with the author by UN News on 2 April 2023. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans was a global phenomenon. Beyond its obvious and profound ...

The murder of unborn babies in America has had the most adverse effect on the black community, which only makes up 13% of the American population. The Black community in America is no longer the ...

EASTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Easthampton City leaders invited the public to attend a special learning opportunity focused on Slavery and Emancipation in the Connecticut River Valley. Springfield ...

A federal prosecutor in Germany on Monday charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture, and war crimes for their alleged treatment of two young Yazidi girls. The suspects, identified as Twana H.S ...