We’ve come from slave ship to spaceship, and we will continue to rise into endeavors far beyond that.” Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier airs tonight at 8 p.m. ET on the Smithsonian ...

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

A campaign to buy and exhibit JMW Turner's earliest known oil painting in a museum has raised more than £100,000 in five days. Bristol City Council, which owns Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, wants to ...

Nat Turner’s 1831 ... more than 20 years after the closing of the trans-atlantic slave ... Inspired by the Amistad, Madison Washington leads a revolt on the Creole, a ship carrying 135 ...