Marine archaeologists, academics, film-makers and local descendants of enslaved people are working together to shed light on ...

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

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

Last fall, U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Mizelle of the Middle District of Florida ruled that the False Claims Act’s (FCA) qui tam provision ...

Noel Duckworth, George Easingwood and John Beckett were captured with the 2nd Battalion The Cambridgeshire Regiment at the ...

From Denmark’s busty mermaid statue to toppled slave traders and stolen Paddington Bears, we take a look at the statues ...

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

Basil Watson calls it an honor to create a likeness of Smalls, the first Black person honored with a statue at the SC State ...

U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West ...

African terrorism does not emerge from religious institutions as commonly portrayed, but rather from the political ...