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

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to have been completely lost to time—was recently discovered in an archival box ...

The suit alleges a U.S. arm of Taiwanese chemical giant Formosa Plastics has hindered access to an unmarked cemetery with ...

The South took a similar but divergent path towards firefighting — one guided by its practice of slavery. Southern cities also had white volunteer corps, but Black labor was integral to their ...

While the first slavery era was a product of colonial wars and the struggle for new republics, the second was an offspring of industrial capitalism and the growth of the world market.

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced them into slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line ...

Juneteenth marks emancipation, yet debate still rages over how to teach slavery, why it arose and persisted, and what place it holds in America’s self-image. Two projects set the poles.

The Troubling Slavery-Era Origins of Inmate Firefighting. Justin Hawkins / Made by History. January 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM. Copied; ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding light on the church's support for ending slavery.

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced them into slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line ...

The Troubling Slavery-Era Origins of Inmate Firefighting. 8 minute read. A crew of inmate firefighters begins to work on containment during the Hughes Fire in Castaic, Calif., on Jan. 22, 2025.