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The opening day of the symposium celebrating the landmark work, “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans,” by celebrated historian and Duke faculty emeritus John Hope Franklin, was ...

When she found the advertisement for Maria, an eighth grader named E.D. was struck by the details in it. The ad was posted in a local newspaper, in 1846, by an enslaver in Tennessee. When Maria ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Juneteenth is coming up Wednesday, which means the celebrations are starting off this weekend here in the Lowcountry. June 19th commemorates the official ending of ...

Years before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, these people stood up. Black and white, male and female, enslaved and free, they publicly opposed racism and violence and fought for freedom and equality.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Lunsford Lane's amazing story of ingenuity and will to find a way out of enslavement in Raleigh and gain the freedom of his family is the subject of a new book that shines a ...

History is literally repeating itself thanks to famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman of Maryland. Thirty years ago this month, ...

Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...

In her new book Master Slave Husband Wife, Ilyon Woo reconstructs the dramatic escape of a resourceful couple who escaped slavery. Ellen and William Craft were considered the legal property of ...

ST. LOUIS — In addition to being the first day of Black History Month, Wednesday, Feb. 1 is National Freedom Day. On that day in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Thirteenth Amendment to the ...

One of the most arresting American images from the pre-Civil War era is a photograph of a man’s hand, palm forward, with the letters “SS” seared into its flesh. The hand belonged to a New England ...