Fearless Benjamin is a new children’s book by Michelle Markel and Marcus Rediker, illustrated by Sarah Bachman. 32 pages, 10 x 8” hardcover. $18.95. For ...

Archaeologists confirm the Camargo slave shipwreck in Brazil, revealing untold truths of the Atlantic slave trade and its ...

The exhibit 'Never Turn Back' marks a milestone for MoPOP: a framing of American history through the lens of Black music, ...

Hellblade II Enhanced Edition is a stellar title. Find out what we thought in our Senua's Saga: Hellblade II PS5 review.

Cassandra Lewis awaits approval from West African nation while reflecting on her great-great-grandfather Cudjo Lewis's ...

The likeness of Robert Smalls, the escaped slave turned South Carolina lawmaker, will be remembered as the first African-American person honored with a statue at the State House at the hands of a ...

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

In Hawaii, ships were directed out to sea by officials, but some guests who were on shore excursions couldn’t make it back in time to get aboard.

Juneteenth remembers the moment in 1865 when slaves in Texas first learned of the Emancipation Proclamation and were belatedly given freedom two months after the Civil War’s end. Southern ...