Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from descendants of slaves.

Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama. The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.

America’s last slave ship stole them from home. It couldn’t steal their identities. In 1860, an illegal bet brought the last known captive Africans to U.S. shores aboard Clotilda.

Kim DeMarco. Most recently, Igbo Landing inspired Marlon Forrester’s new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. In his series of paintings If Black Saints Could Fly 23: si ...

The work of the Amistad Center is at risk after federal funding cuts wiped out 40% of the organization’s $1.5 million budget, ...

Parades, parties and more ways to celebrate Juneteenth in Detroit. Plus, when to catch this year's Ford Fireworks.

Looking for a book for beach or a shady spot in your garden? Richard Fitzpatrick offers his fiction picks for the first half of the year ...

Despite the ever-growing anime industry, these ten manga still await an anime confirmation, so read on to find out more.

Here in 2025, it’s everywhere, and we’ve seen some chilling embodiments of artificial intelligence emerge as villains in ...

On a clear night earlier this year, the writer and scholar Saidiya Hartman was fidgeting in a cab on the way to MOMA PS1, the contemporary-art center in Queens. The museum was holding an event to ...

Marine expert Edmond O’Byrne's team believes they have discovered the likely remains of the Recovery, an 18th-century that carried valuable cargo before it sank.