Maryland should have been the fourth state in the union to pass a reparations commission — now it’s the first one to have it ...

Decades later, in 1906, when Abache (Clara Turner) talked of the filth ... many hope the discovery of the last slave ship will bring Mobilians together to acknowledge their shared history and ...

(See also: Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama ... and they could be socially and politically mobile. (See also: Nat Turner, an American rebel's complicated legacy.) ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

The Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery was established in 2007 with the adoption of General Assembly resolution 62/122. The Programme raises awareness of the history ...

Outside of historians, academics and the generational memories of Black New Orleanians, relatively few people understand the ...