A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown, a community near Mobile founded by Africans illegally transported to Alabama aboard the slave ship. Some of their descendants ...

On July 16 on Paris Hill, internationally acclaimed storyteller Antonio Rocha will present the story of Pedro Tovookan Parris ...

The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum will host its annual “Voices of History” Street Fair on June 28, a celebration of Black history, East Baltimore pride and the power of arts and culture to ...

Effort to remove names from Navy ships shows a lack of understanding of history and what constitutes a “warrior.” ...

A mutual insurance company is one wholly owned by its policyholders. Consider it self-funding as opposed to being dependent ...

a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship ...

It’s the result of efforts to lie about or suppress the reality of this country’s origins, a tradition that has convinced far too many people that speaking honestly is hating rather than loving this ...

I seldom laughed but often smiled during “The Phoenician Scheme,” another monument to artifice from modern cinema’s fussiest ...

Warhammer 40k has had its fair share of races that have us begging for more details. These are our favorite Mystery Races of ...

Richmond is slowly coming to terms with its past as a major slave-trading market. The Richmond Slave Trail, a self-guided walking tour of 17 sites, chronicles the trade of enslaved Africans to ...

It wasn't long before Eichelman and even some students noticed some peculiarities. The textbook said slaves were happy, often referring to them as servants. It glorified Confederates. And it said ...