You’ll make sure of it, saving for their education, demanding excellence from them, requiring discipline, and offering ...
Alexander Stephens's infamous “Cornerstone” speech remains controversial even today. The simple revisionist narrative is that ...
A former maid and the granddaughter of slaves, Remay Pearce (1920-2007) served as an assemblywoman from Essex County for ...
The year was 1961—a then 28-year-old Roger Shank did something no Black man in the city or the state of Georgia had ever done ...
Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...
The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating and inhumane processes in human history. It is the subject of ...
You may never have heard of Brooklyn, Illinois. You might not be aware it’s one of the country’s first Black settlements, or ...
Sex trafficking, like forced labor, is a contemporary form of slavery. I am an academic who studies the mindset ... others for rule.” A 24-year-old Norwalk man pleaded guilty Tuesday to stabbing ...
Young Jimmy Carter and his friends were walking across a pasture after a day’s farm labor during the Great Depression. As ...
In total, 60,000 South Sea Islanders came to Australia as slaves or cheap labour from 1863. They were commonly referred to as Kanakas, and their hard labour helped establish Queensland's sugar and ...
A passenger plane crash-landed in South Korea, killing 179 people on board, including a 3-year-old boy. Jeju Air flight 7C2216 “caught fire while landing” at Muan International Airport at ...