Denzel Washington’s decades-long career has secured him two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild Award ...

Centuries-old British maritime group Lloyd's Register has apologised for its historical role in transatlantic slavery, after launching an investigation into its past.

Katie Phang explains the historical precedent of President Dwight Eisenhower's mass deportations that Donald Trump has cited ...

The SS United States was poised to set sail at the end of last year on her final voyage from Philadelphia to the bottom of ...

Winooski had a short time as a community in the 19th century. Its most famous resident was a well-known abolitionist who had ...

Two-time Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou talks about his philanthropic work, and how ‘systemic racism’ means he’s still ...

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...

In nearly 14 years on the Delaware Court of Chancery, Glasscock has tied the specifics of cases to literary references, ...

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the piano prodigy known as “Blind Tom.” ...

While surveying the long-forgotten ship, a team of archaeologists unearthed objects — as well as insights into the trans-Atlantic slave trade. WLRN’s Julia Cooper reports from Key West. Tell us about ...

Conversely, two renowned islands under U.S. administration will be the last to bid farewell to the old year. Interestingly, Samoa, another Pacific nation, was not always among the earliest to ...