Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

Ad Policy This article appears in the April 2025 issue. Come Gather ’Round, People. Thank you for Daniel Bessner’s thoughtful ...

Born under the shackles of slavery, Harriet Tubman refused to accept a life where she wasn't free. Even after escaping, she ...

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, and Zachary Taylor all owned slaves. Plus, ...

The order, which stated “so that each family shall have a plot of not more than forty acres of tillable ground…,” led to the ...

During a press conference at the State Capitol in Tallahassee, State Representative Ryan Chamberlin (R-FL) announced what he ...

The Indiana National Guard says it's complying with an order from the Trump administration to cease DEI efforts.

The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Students at Michigan State University’s law school have found thousands of court cases that cite rulings ...

Starlink connections appeared to be helping criminals at Tai Chang to “scam Americans” and “fuel their internet needs,” West alleged at the end of July 2024. She offered to share more ...

Most found the video demo problematic in many ways, while the rest titled it ‘dystopian’ and ‘modern slavery’. A few also chastised the idea and criticised the startup co-founders, calling them ‘deaf ...

In 2017, historian Judith Giesberg and her team of graduate student researchers launched a website called Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery. It now contains over 4,500 ads placed in newspapers ...