A copy of the 1863 image 'The Scourged Back,' depicting the scars on the back of a formerly enslaved man, was ordered to be ...

Barbara Drummond and Spiro Cheriogotis debate police bodycams, marijuana policy, project priorities ahead of Sept. 23 runoff.

While public memorials of New Orleans’ prominent role in the slave trade have been mostly understated or non-existent, cities ...

A billboard in Montgomery, Alabama, has ignited a storm of backlash after displaying the words “It’s Time to Get the Clowns ...

Collier Neeley's selection as HSF’s top leader signals the organization is taking sharper focus on preservation advocacy.

British workhouses were intimately bound up with slavery and imperialism throughout the early modern period, new research ...

Mass incarceration in the United States has resulted in African Americans being incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of whites, and the imprisonment rate for African American women is twice that ...

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has relaunched its global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities, and implications of the transatlantic slave trade as today’s ...

Montgomery’s proximity to the fertile Black Belt region, where slave-owners amassed large, enslaved populations to work the rich soil, elevated Montgomery’s prominence in domestic trafficking, and by ...

An accountant retained by former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder's U.S. National Slavery Museum said the museum's 2005 tax filing does not contain a $1.6 million discrepancy, according to Wilder's court ...