The push to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, which successfully led to the first national Juneteenth observance in 2021, brought a new wave of attention to the history behind this celebration. A ...

ST. LOUIS — Descendants of the Black people enslaved by St. Louis University have for the first time calculated how much labor and wealth was stolen from their ancestors, their latest effort in a ...

Americans on Monday will celebrate Juneteenth, marking the day the last enslaved people in the country learned they were free. For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of one of the ...

Four years ago, The New York Times published The 1619 Project, a collection of stories and essays about the lasting impact of slavery in the United States. Among the many ideas advanced in the project ...

ST. LOUIS – St. Louis University was set to apologize for enslaving people. Hours before the ceremony, a group of descendants of Black people the school enslaved backed out, citing concerns that the ...

'10 Million Names' project uses ancestry research to shed light on U.S. history. Genealogists and researchers are tracking down archival documents from across the country to piece together the family ...

Carole Emberton is an associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo. Her book, To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Jordan, is available now from W.W. Norton.

Airbnb will no longer allow people to rent out houses where enslaved people formerly lived or worked, according to the company's new anti-discrimination policy. The platform's policy, which provided ...

The African American Archive of Columbia County, in collaboration with the Hudson Area Library, presents the second of four ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Decades of research and archeology led to a recent, historic discovery on Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage property. Without disturbing the graves, archaeologists confirmed the ...