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

Slavery was a business, a commerce, a financial enterprise expanding American capitalism. In fact, most economists agree that ...

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.

Slavery was supposed to be abolished, yet millions are still trapped in forced labor across Africa today. From child labor in ...

Analysis - Weather-induced disasters that are the result of climate change are increasingly affecting societies. One area that hasn't been explored much yet is how extreme weather events are creating ...

Map showing the environmental sampling locations focused on filling gaps in West Africa, West-Central Africa, and parts of ...

For more than 30 years, the SC African American Heritage Commission has taken a serious effort in preserving the rich African ...

A museum is changing its exhibits to reflect a town's "glossed over" connections to slavery. The Rum Story in Whitehaven ...

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

“This is really diffuse and not centralized,” Fisher said. “There are shipping records for 12 million African slaves, but you don’t have that for Indigenous slavery. It’s one person in a ...

One of the 10 greatest trees in the world is still holding strong — and with a remarkable tale of strength to pair with it.