Poet Phyllis Wheatley, born in 1753, was freed on this day in 1773. Kidnapped in Africa and sold as a slave when she was only ...

Outraged critics are accusing President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park.

Today we visit the Ihagee Plantation in Alabama, where an old slave burial ground sits separated from the family cemetery—yet it may hold just as many graves, if not more. Most burials here have no ...

Deep in the woods just off the side of the road sits a forgotten plantation-era slave cemetery with well over 100 unmarked graves—most of them nothing more than raised mounds in the earth. The only ...

Black landowners from a Georgia island community founded by freed slaves are fighting their latest property dispute with local officials at the ballot box.

Hawaii’s law represents one of the most brazen attempts yet to effectively nullify the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen ...