Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

It will begin by focusing on Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous Black abolitionists of the 18th Century, whose powerful ...

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 ...

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

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in ...

Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis (Little, Brown and Company, 2025) Anthony Galluzzo, Against the Vortex: Zardoz and ...

Teachers can avail of a free professional development workshop with strategies to bring historical narratives to life. The ...

He was kidnapped into slavery as a boy and later managed to purchase his freedom. After publishing his autobiography in 1789, he toured Britain to sell it and promote abolition and Black rights ...

The third annual "Courage to Dream" Black History Month celebration highlighted immigrants' stories, with a showcase of music ...

Gen. William T. Sherman‘s infamous “March to the Sea” is covered almost antiseptically in American history texts. Yet, ...

The man behind Black History Month was a Harvard scholar who felt “all Americans should understand the largely overlooked ...