Wheatley’s work has been probed and scrutinized, both during her short life and after her death. But despite that, her verse — and her crucial, early voice against slavery — have endured. Now, as the ...

The leadership at the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum is changing with the departure of Executive Director James Capuzzi.

The federal government can marshal its considerable resources to block some of the devastating damage Mamdani could do with ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the first recorded Christmas celebration, the death of Amazing ...

The Trump administration has scraped plans for coins honoring Frederick Douglass and Ruby Bridges opting for all Whites to ...

The great-great-great-grandniece of Tubman was dedicated to carrying on the legacy of her abolitionist ancestor. Pauline Copes Johnson, one of ...

North Star, created and directed by Kwame Daniels, is coming to the Irish Arts Center in June 2026.  Performances will run ...

Aside from Singapore, which has executed 17 people so far this year, Southeast Asia is retreating from the death penalty.

Happy Birthday to our own poet abolitionist, John Greenleaf Whittier, born of immigrants from England on a small farm in ...

A qualitative study of international key informants argues that mental health laws may be inherently discriminatory, making ...

On this day 160 years ago, the United States of America ratified the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, immortalizing a self-evident principle that ...

Buffalo honored one of its most prominent 1800s Black residents with a new gravesite marker. Find out who it is, and why this dedication matters. Diane Keaton dies. The Oscar-winning 'Annie Hall' and ...