slave trade

The topic of reparations is a touchy one...for white people. While the American government hasn’t touched the topic…

In Louisville, Ga., one of the last remaining former slave markets is finally being removed from the town’s center.

To commemorate the quadricentennial anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans in America, we imagined what it…

In the fifth episode of She’s Gotta Have It’s second season, titled, “SuperCaliFragiSexy,” Nola Darling (DeWanda…

Researchers at the Alabama Historical Commission recently announced that they’ve located the remains of the last…

On Tuesday, as Juneteenth—the holiday marking the end of slavery—was observed, the City Council of Charleston, S.C.,…

In 1860, 52 years after the importation of human chattel was outlawed in the United States, the Clotilda, a…

What if we could put names and faces to the Africans who were brought over to America as slaves in 1619? Would it…

When CNN broke the story several weeks ago that slavery—not wage slavery, not emotional slavery, not virtual…

You know, there’s a way to teach slavery to people, especially children, without involving fun, hand-drawn posters…

The recent opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is part of a long…

Paul Gardullo lifted an iron ballast from a Portuguese slave ship that sank in 1794 out of a crate Wednesday morning…