President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but ...

The jail cell was cold, damp and echoey. But sleeping in the old prison buildings of Alcatraz Island was the first time Robert Free Galvan had a sense of true liberty. In 1969, Galvan and other ...

President Donald Trump this month ordered the U.S. Department of Education to launch an investigation into the dispute over ...

President Donald Trump ordered a civil-rights probe to defend a Long Island school district that's resisting a NY order to ...

A judge ruled April 30 that a Rhode Island prison could not stop a Native American inmate from wearing a religious headband, according to court documents. Screengrab from the complaint A prison that ...

A Long Island school pleaded Monday with the Trump administration to jump into its ongoing fight to keep its Native American team name – with one week until a pivotal legal deadline.

The Catawba Island Historical Society welcomes speaker Gabriel Rodriguez on May 21 to discuss the Indian Removal Act of 1830 ...

director of Native American and Indigenous studies at Stony Brook University, also on Long Island. “It is as if this image were a shorthand for any and all Indians,” the Cherokee Nation ...