Slavery

Inoculation Introduced To America By A Slave By Ken Hare Chicago Defender Staff Writer Few details are known about the birth of Onesimus, an African slave born...

*”The Book of Negroes” director Clement Virgo had difficulty accepting the title when he read Lawrence Hill‘s novel of the same name. “I had an aversion to a novel called Book Of Negroes,” Virgo said about the miniseries, which will air on BET in February during Black History Month, according to Deadline. The novel and miniseries are […]

A group that advocates for the separation of church and state says an Arizona charter school is using texts that push Christianity and one...

When Luiz Pinto was growing up, his parents wouldn't let the family talk about slavery. The issue raised ugly memories. Pinto’s grandmother was born into...

Greg Brannon, a GOP U.S. Senate hopeful out of North Carolina, compared food stamps to slavery and called for the dissolution of the Department...

Photo by Huffington Post On this day in 1847, freed slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass started a newspaper called The North Star. Douglass...

  (CNN) – Dr. Ben Carson, a renowned neurosurgeon enjoying recent popularity in the conservative movement, compared the federal health care law to "slavery"...

In a National Review profile focused on his past life as an ophthalmologist and all of the pro-bono work performed over the years,...

Did you know that the official African American holidays are: Kwanzaa, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth? What do you and your...

A section of a petition filled by 20 African slaves asking for their freedom more than 200 years ago is seen at the New...