University of Delaware has restored elements of student research, work and academic materials on slavery and Newark history ...

Attorney and civil rights activist Michael Coard explains the history of the memorial, the latest in the lawsuit over it, and ...

Over the past year, UD has reacted to pressure under a second Trump administration, while tuning a “long-term strategy” on ...

In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside.

Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case. After they were stolen ...

Where the U.S. Federal Courthouse stands now in Los Angeles was once the site of a market where Native Americans' labor was sold in a system the ACLU has called “slavery by another name.” (Photo by ...

For some, the removal of exhibits about slavery at the President’s House Site at Independence National Historical Park on Thursday came as a shock. For John Garrison Marks, a historian and author who ...

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Slavery’s place in U.S. history has once again become a flashpoint in public discourse. On one hand, President Donald Trump has ...

Special appearances by Henry Louis Gates Jr. America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you'd taken, learning from ...

I have a message for President Donald Trump, his administration and anyone who hopes the world will forget what happened in this country. Slavery in the United States was a brutal and dehumanizing ...

Softening the portrayal of slavery in museums is a dangerous attempt to reshape collective memory. The legacies of slavery, such as racial disparities in incarceration and wealth, continue to impact ...