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.

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

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 ...

Deep in the waters off the Western Coast of Florida, secrets are waiting to be unearthed in the Gulf.

It reminds me that I stand on their shoulders,” he says. (Learn more about how the search for lost slave ships led this diver on an extraordinary journey.) While the map is a promising tool ...

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 ...

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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Deep in the waters off the Western Coast of Florida, secrets are waiting to be unearthed in the Gulf. "It's just endless, the story of what went on in these waters," Joe Zsiga, AKA Captain Joe of ...