A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time.

Deep beneath the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a remarkable hunt is unfolding. Joe Sziga, a retired fisherman turned treasure ...

On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the ...

According to historical records, the Isabelita was a slave ship operating in the Western Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea waters. There is a Spanish Well near the Anclote Key boat ramp that ...

They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly anchor in Anse Cafard and careened into Martinique's Diamond Rock Mountain, killing many of the passengers and sailors as ...

Artist Katherine Sandoz curated an exhibition of fiber-based artworks and ceramics, while chefs Chino Hathcock and Sam ...

Tara Roberts, Explorer-in-Residence for National Geographic, came to Western Illinois University in Macomb to talk about her ...

The black community has seen what happens when this kind of hatred is allowed to run rampant and must support the Israeli victims and call for the defeat of Hamas.

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