In an interview this week , James Fishback argued that U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds shouldn’t have been offended by being called a ...

Was Nat Turner a hero? Depends on whose descendants you ask. On assignment for 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper went to Southampton County, Virginia, to the place where Turner’s bloody rebellion took place ...

“This was not about the past,” Nkrumah Steward told ABC News. — -- It was a meeting 181 years in the making as Nkrumah Steward, a slave descendant, and Robert Adams, a plantation owner, sat down ...

The bronze historical plaque will be installed at the site of a St. Louis slave prison once owned by Bernard M. Lynch, a ...

Nearly nine months before U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Emancipation Proclamation calling for the end of slavery, the District of Columbia outlawed the slavery and paid reparations to ...

The first nude sculpture of a woman widely seen by the American public depicted a slave, just decades before the Civil War. Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave now at the Smithsonian ...

Slavery—and it’s harrowing and depraved legacy—still has modern-day repercussions for Black Americans. It lasted four centuries and was the worst crime against humanity this country has ever committed ...

A south-east London KFC franchisee has been made to pay nearly £70,000 after a manager called an Indian worker a "slave" and forced him to work extra hours, a tribunal heard. Madhesh Ravichandran, ...

In the spring of 1528, a crew of 600 Spanish and Portuguese soldiers landed on the Gulf Coast of the United States, hoping to find gold. The expedition was an utter disaster; only four members ...

Sexual liaisons between mixed-race couples during the slavery era form the centerpiece of 'Slave Play,' a provocative world-premiere satirical work from award-winning young playwright Jeremy O. Harris ...