The scholar, poet, and filmmaker devoted her life to sketching out a revisionist historiography of resistance in Latin ...

As people across the country experience these issues, which affect everyone in different ways, it’s important that we learn ...

An alliance of Jesuits and descendants of those the order once enslaved aims to achieve restorative justice by modeling terms of an 1838 slave sale.

At the start of the 19th century, The Genius of Liberty carried dispatches on events an ocean away and concerns as close as a ...

On Thursday, a fourth federal judge blocked the executive order issued by the president on his first day in the Oval Office.

For all that however, the slave trade had to be brought to an end because it was standing in the way of the development of something even more profitable, if not any less abhorrent than the slave ...

Research has revealed that the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSPC), once the largest British shipping company during the ...

A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations advocates want to try again in 2026.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) teared up while reintroducing a reparations bill, taking up the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's mantel.

“The ‘Free as One’ exhibit is proof of how and what really occurred,” says Justina Barrett from HSP’s Chief Learning and ...

Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to the United States, Ronald M. Sanders, condemned Harvard’s decision to lay off the staff of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, urging the University to step up ...