The 23-year-old, who had worked as a slave aboard the vessel, brought 15 other enslaved people with ... The influential Black minister Henry McNeal Turner called Smalls a living example “of ...

Among its supporters were slaveholders, who feared that the increasing number of free Black people living in the South might foment uprisings, and white abolitionists, who believed an African ...

A new study confirms what residents in Louisiana oil towns long suspected: they get all the pollution but very few of the jobs.

A new study led by Tulane University has revealed stark racial disparities across the U.S.’s petrochemical workforce.

In 2021, while revelers across America celebrated the fourth of July, three researchers waded through a shallow river delta in the New Mexican desert. Abby Eckland, Irina Overeem and Brandee Carlson ...