A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

There is an exciting new addition on display at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, ...

Gil Rose talks all about bringing Ulysses Kay’s "Frederick Douglass" back to life along with the work of other Black composers.

Monroe County Executive Adam Bello said the millions of travelers who pass through the airport each year will be able to ...

The New York State Archives has uncovered nearly 200-year-old court records detailing abolitionist Sojourner Truth’s battle for her enslaved son’s freedom.

Several years ago, Leroy Graham, a Baltimore historian and author of Baltimore: The 19th Century Black Capital , wrote a monograph on a little-remembered incident that predated the Amistad affair o… ...

A new biography of the iconic abolitionist and activist hopes to add nuance and complexity to Tubman and her legacy of freedom and service. Written by Harvard University Prof. Tiya Miles, ...

That sentiment has earned him the execration of every abolitionist and neo-abolitionist, from Garrison to Ebony editor Lerone Bennett Jr., whose book "Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White ...

He’s the grandson of a slave and he’s founded a mass anti-slavery movement, been jailed three times, and run for president of his home nation, Mauritania.

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...