In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, a long-neglected plot of land has been transformed. It's now home to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, the vision of ...

On Feb. 16, Yale University marked a milestone in its comprehensive, long-term examination of the university’s historical role in and associations with slavery, publishing a related peer-reviewed book ...

In the everlasting faceoff between Black history and America’s self-conception, it’s worth revisiting one of the fight’s earliest and most valiant weapons of war: the slave memoir. Narratives by ...

Lee Hawkins on honoring the past of slavery by rethinking the present. Former Wall Street Journal reporter Lee Hawkins' memoir, "I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free," ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - According to a recent study, 37% of the Columbus population was enslaved by 1860. The history behind slavery is a very dark history, from being chained, whipped, raped, and ...

Then-Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz and Gov. Ron DeSantis oversaw the introction of new educational standards that require students to learn that enslaved people “developed skills which, in ...

Enslaved people helped build the foundation of CT. Get to know the lives they lived. Slavery has deep roots in Connecticut and across New England. Enslaved people helped build the foundation of much ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Then-Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz and Gov. Ron DeSantis oversaw the ...