Elon Musk tried to play history teacher on his platform X last week, but his bogus narrative on slavery backfired in ...

As federal judges block parts of Trump's agenda, some have issued dramatic and emotional opinions with their orders.

In Hulu’s soapy “Washington Black,” about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem yanked the protections for the three nations in June and July and offered each a ...

Many African abolitionists who fought and lost their lives in the struggle against slavery have gone unacknowledged.

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

Wikimedia Commons/Richmond Compiler The Creole Rebellion of 1841 The Creole was just another slave ship crossing the Atlantic in November 1841, carrying human cargo to Southern markets. Then Madison ...

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African country.

Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.