slavery

Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true.

A conservative alumni group took issue with the discussion of difficult parts of UVA’s history.

The Freedmen’s Bureau was supposed to support formerly enslaved people.

But voters have a chance to end forced prison labor in November.

MLK called health care injustice “the most inhuman form” of inequality.

A Black town was flooded to create Lake Lanier.

Ron DeSantis' Board of Education will make public school students learn about the “personal benefit” of being enslaved.

Current shield laws don’t go far enough, organizers say.

They reflect the fears of the time.

“Our intention with this project is to highlight history, not to erase history.”

The story of Black History Month goes all the way back to 1915.

But this was a pivotal period in American history.

Marie Joseph Angelique was accused of setting fire to much of old Montreal.

Several pro-labor ballot initiatives and amendments passed.

Faculty and staff once owned slaves, and professors taught racial eugenics.

Spare us the quotes from civil rights icons. We need action now.

Thanks to a critical exception to the 13th Amendment.

Across the Caribbean, women are leading this movement.

“What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one’s own culture.”

So much has happened on this date.