Through powerful storytelling, historical accounts, and personal narratives, the film traces the resilience and cultural preservation of Africatown founders and their descendants. It highlights the ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in ...

They spoke at a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York this past week where, for the first time, descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat ...

The sparsely populated, Hog Hammock district of Sapelo Island, Georgia, which is home to what is believed to be the last intact community of West African slave descendants, faces persistent pressures ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...