Today marks the 207th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest Americans to ever live. After he ...

At first glance, birthright citizenship and slavery may seem like separate issues, but their histories are deeply intertwined, rooted in the same ...

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

More than 100 descendants of people who were enslaved during the colonial era have applied to change their names since a ...

Beeta Baghoolizadeh, a historian and associate research scholar at the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

"Trace/s," the Brooklyn Public Library's newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy ...