The appeal comes days after a judge ordered the administration to restore the slavery exhibit, citing George Orwell’s 1984 as part of her ruling. Political Correspondent The Trump administration is ...

Historians often compare today's political polarization to the decade preceding the American Civil War. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intensified conflicts between federal authorities and Northern ...

Exclusive: Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy says treating these objects as collectors’ items ‘should be looked at in horror’ An antiques auction selling chains linked to the enslavement of African people ...

Ghana will submit a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly in March to designate the African slave trade as "the most serious crime against humanity," Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama ...

In the latest turn of events, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration wrongly removed historic panels about people George Washington enslaved at the President’s House in Philadelphia. A ...

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American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, circa 1855. Staff Writer America has been working to fully live up to the ideals laid out in the Declaration of Independence ever since the document was ...

Ato Blankson-Wood, renowned for his Tony-nominated performance as 'Gary' in Jeremy O. Harris' critically acclaimed Slave Play, has also earned accolades from the Drama League and Antonyo Awards for ...