African leaders are scheduled to meet in Ethiopia this weekend where they will launch a new push for slavery and colonial ...

A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...

Congress passes the first Fugi­tive Slave Law. The law made it easier for a slave owner to re-take control of a slave who had ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its ...

There will be a special choral prayer service at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, commemorating the Rev. Absalom Jones, who was born into slavery and became the first African ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad — Spanish for “Friendship” ...

The 55-member organization is set to vote for a new chairperson, who will inherit challenges ranging from conflicts to ...

With the team fully assembled, the hope is to open the $11 million center inside Main Street Station's Train Shed either by ...

African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are to launch a new push for slavery and colonial reparations, but can ...

Meaning from that point on the formerly enslaved people of Texas were finally free leading to the idea of what many now call ...