Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels ...

A high-ranking city official in Oakland, California, has been fired over a resurfaced note that showed her referring to black people as ... charges earlier this year related to receiving ...

But this is not the story of an island, nor is it the story of the slave trader Dugommier, although the two are closely related through a woman who was buried by history and brought back to the ...

The reconstruction of a much-loved Old South coffee shop and bakery destroyed by fire two years ago has begun, with its owners eyeing a fall opening. The new Black Walnut Bakery and Cafe ...

Changes to National Park Service narrative aim to erase the harsh realities of slavery and the pivotal ... events ranging from the enslavement of Black people to Jim Crow by the wishes of the ...

Such has been the uniform growth of the United States for seventy years past, that the aggregate ... In some of the States also, the number of slaves is given for taxation. A calculation based ...

Black and white ... who was born into slavery in 1799 — ended up in New Haven. Jill Marie Snyder is a historian who helped put together the 200-year remembrance service. She’s researched ...

The first black bear hunting season in Louisiana in over 35 years has made history. Among the 10 bears harvested, a remarkable 696-pound male, believed to be the largest Louisiana black bear ever ...