Abolitionists used a daguerreotype of Mary Mildred Williams, a light-skinned black girl born into slavery, to win over potentially sympathetic white Americans during the 19th century.

Q: Please discuss the racism in the abolitionist movement. A: Black and white abolitionists often had different agendas by the 1840s, and certainly in the 1850s. But one of the greatest ...

Black History Month has always been about abolition for me. I may not have known the word abolition as a young girl, but I understood abolition in my spirit. At my core, ...

It’s been over a month since Amy Cooper, a white woman walking her dog in NYC's Central Park called the police on Christian Cooper (no relation to Amy), a Black man bird-watching in the same ...

On June 25, 2021, White Coats for Black Lives (WC4BL), a national organization of medical students, published its statement of “vision and values.”The “dominant medical practice in the United States ...

"Sisters in Freedom" documents Philly’s less discussed history of Black and White female abolitionists who were so audacious that they spoke in public despite the taboos of doing so.

This time, a white candidate is the best pick to represent Black community | Opinion Matthew Park's agenda is in tune with the Black Lives Matter movement and the Black Agenda for Tennessee.

In 1859, Harriet E. Wilson published a book about life as an indentured servant in New Hampshire. It remains an obscure classic because it challenges white ideals about racism in the North.

Josiah Wedgwood. The Wedgwood medallion was the most famous image of a black person in all of 18th-century art. Josiah Wedgwood, Britain's renowned potter, was a man of conscience, deeply ...