In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts, took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

The Star Wars Universe is filled with amazing space ships, but which of the Empire and Rebel Alliance's crafts are the most ...

THE world set aside January 27 every year as International Holocaust Remembrance Day to remember one of the worst human tragedies ...

A new festival will celebrate the legacy and potential of the Africatown community this weekend, offering a four-day slate of free events. The inaugural Owambe Black History Month Festival is ...

A captain believes he's closing in on the treasure of a French privateer, who he believes left behind a $200 million treasure in water off of New Port Richey. He believes studying his find could help ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West, shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the shipwreck and ...

Ahead of Kendrick Lamar’s headline performance at the Super Bowl half-time show in New Orleans, we explore the rapper’s journey from the unforgiving streets of Compton to pop culture ubiquity.

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to bring it to light.

The exhibition will examine life on Caribbean plantations and the ways African people and their descendants resisted ...

“This trip is using lessons from the Underground Railroad to teach humanity,” says Walker, who has been leading tours for Footsteps to Freedom since it was founded 28 years ago by Cheryl and Hardy ...

Many people are shocked and saddened at how badly Harvard has stumbled in its efforts to reveal and repair the legacy of ...

Captain Jack Sparrow's beloved ship is one of the most recognizable pirate vessels in cinema, and it's based on a real type ...