The 38th African Union (AU) Summit due to convene in Addis Ababa next week has identified "Justice for Africans and People of ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

After his recent Grammys stunt, rapper Kanye West has made a string of controversial statements, from urging President Donald ...

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound from the West African coast to North America in late 1859. Her story ...

O. Jason OSAI urges African leaders not to allow themselves to be led into new slavery by treaties and agreements they don't understand ...

In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...

Once a holding cell for kidnapped Africans, the island’s House of Slaves is today a UNESCO World Heritage site—and the site of healing and atonement.

FOX 5 continues its Celebration of Black History Month with a story about a DeKalb County business. A restaurant celebrating ...

The campaign, which begins on Feb. 8, the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, is designated for prayer and awareness of human ...