One Thousand Years of Slavery, a riveting new docu-series exploring the legacy of slavery and how our shared history can create a better future, will air on Smithsonian Channel in 2022. Watch Full ...

In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, a long-neglected plot of land has been transformed. It's now home to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, the vision of ...

He spoke at a museum where millions of African slaves were baptized. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, during his diplomatic trip to Angola, acknowledged America's "original sin" of slavery and the ...

Lee Hawkins on honoring the past of slavery by rethinking the present. Former Wall Street Journal reporter Lee Hawkins' memoir, "I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free," ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read through a ...

Florida’s public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills, part of new African American history standards approved Wednesday ...