Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

Robert Smalls was a real-life legend — an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship, navigated it past enemy lines, and ...

A 1.5-mile avenue lined with over 400 live oak trees creates a tunnel of branches draped with Spanish moss. It’s like driving through a scene from a dream or a movie set. The trees were planted in the ...

A scroll where Baptist ministers took an early stand against slavery has been rediscovered in Groton, Massachusetts. The ...

The Rarest Fruit” depicts how Edmond Albius, a 19th-century Black wunderkind, solved a pollination puzzle.

Shutterstock The Old Slave Mart in Charleston, South Carolina Charleston became a major center for buying and selling ...