A new exhibit at the Lincoln Presidential Library explores Reconstruction’s rise, collapse and lasting impact through artifacts and film.

Corporations can now vote in Delaware. And they’re doing it. Seriously. Not dystopian science fiction or a new novel by an AI ...

The establishment of an interim government headed by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus brought new hope as the interim ...

Colorado voters passed Amendment A, a ballot measure touted as an end to slavery in state prisons in 2018. The amendment eliminated the penal exception clause, which allowed the state to use forced ...

Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. In a ruling that is notably silent on Louisiana’s history of slavery and white ...

The last thing Florida needs is a new culture war, especially one with such dire potential ramifications. | Opinion ...

Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon ...

But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

Now southern Republicans are annihilating Black political power. For many decades after Reconstruction, southern states ...

Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter suggested the Supreme Court should overturn or weaken the 14th Amendment. Ratified on July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment is a cornerstone of the U.S.

Government’s anti-slavery commissioner says traffickers are exploiting a growing pipeline of vulnerability Slavery in the UK is at record levels and is expected to worsen over the next decade, the ...

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a ...