In his acclaimed new book, First Contact, Associate Professor of Literature Zac Zimmer draws on the power of speculative ...

This is Article 2 of the seven-part series, “Bridges of Liberation: Jewish & African Paths to Freedom.” The full disclaimer regarding my independent views is contained in the preceding article: ...

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Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos is Director of the Kings Brazil Institute at Kings College London. Speaking with Srijana Mitra ...

By affirming that customary international law can ground claims for climate-related reparations, the ICJ appeared to open the door for climate demands tied to colonial harms. Yet, in the same opinion, ...

The "Honoring Those Who Were Enslaved" project is the result of "engagements with the community of descendants of enslaved ...

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, delivered this year’s ...

The American Revolution was one of the most radical acts in human history, casting aside centuries of monarchical despotism ...

Ken Burns' new six-episode docuseries 'The American Revolution' looks at the attitude George Washington had toward allowing ...

“W hen shall we hear the joyfull sound … that slavery is no more?” So asked Jupiter Hammon, an enslaved man whose life in New ...

Americans have begun celebrating the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary war that freed our nation from Britain’s monarchy ...

From there, we leapt over centuries of empire, slavery and revolution in America to arrive triumphantly at the First and ...