One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

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

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Bey’s show gets its name from a passage in the second stanza of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the hymn by James Weldon Johnson ...

A nonprofit, the Capital Region Land Conservancy, wants to give the land at 1401 and 1421 Brander St. as a gift to the city.

But historians know very little about the individuals aboard these slave ships. More often than not, their existence was reflected in numbers on ledgers and spreadsheets. Their birth names ...

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 ...

Richards, who was named National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence last year, regularly joins Diving With a Purpose, a group of Black scuba divers who uncover and document slave shipwrecks in the ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — February is Black History Month: a time to celebrate Black Americans’ past, present and future. The ...