The Birmingham Police Department confirms that an Alabama State trooper shot himself in the finger during a traffic stop in Birmingham Thursday afternoon. According ...

Shutterstock The Old Slave Mart in Charleston, South Carolina Charleston became a major center for buying and selling ...

A new historical marker in Mattituck honors Elymus Reeve, highlighting Black history and slavery's impact in Southold, as ...

There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.

Current and former prisoners are suing Alabama, fast food franchisees and other beneficiaries of the state's prison labor system they say is a “modern-day form of slavery” where incarcerated ...

A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

Remembering Matilda, the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade January 13 marks 85 years since the death of Matilda, whose name at birth was Abake – meaning ‘born to be loved by all ...

The Alabama Historical Commission plans to keep the last known vessel to transport enslaved Africans to the United States in its current location in the Mobile River, saying the ship is too ...

In Montgomery, the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park – 17 acres filled with nearly 50 sculptures by world-famous artists – evokes the history and repercussions of slavery in America.

‘More mainstream’: In the UK, push for slavery reparations gains momentum Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has refused to apologise for Britain’s role in the slave trade, but civil society is ...

People incarcerated in Alabama's prisons say they're the victims of 'a modern-day form of slavery.' Those imprisoned in other states can say the same.

More than a century after 110 Africans were smuggled to Alabama on a ship, the descendants of the ship's financier are working toward reconciliation.