Kidnapped from West Africa as a child and brought to Boston, Wheatley became the first African-American woman published in ...

At a time when public officials are putting limits on the recounting of Black history, Broward County’s African American ...

The roots of American slavery precede early modern European thought and extend back to Greece and Rome.

An outdoor exhibit of printed canvas panels featuring the inspirational words of a famous 19th Century abolitionist will stay up through the winter at Whittier Birthplace in Haverhill. Created by ...

Revisit forgotten or underrated war TV shows that deserve a second chance, including Transatlantic, Women at War, and 1980's ...

East Coast to West Coast – have been prevalent in this space for years,” said Bun B, who, with partner Pimp C, became pillars ...

Crowned in 1854, Elisabeth of Austria was famous for her luxuriant chestnut hair, which fell to her feet and required hours ...

In Brazil it used to be just another month. Not any more: since last year Brazilians have turned it into “Black Consciousness ...

Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.

Long before the first shots were fired in the Civil War, beginning early in the 19th century, Americans had been fighting a ...

“Until the pictures of the slave’s sufferings were drawn up and held up to public gaze, no Northerner had any idea of the cruelty of the system,” abolitionist Angelina Grimké wrote in her famous “ ...

Cat White, the center’s director of historic collections, stumbled upon a manuscript detailing the life of Dr. Rev. William H ...