Western New York honored Underground Railroad history Tuesday as the Peace Bridge and Old County Hall glow yellow and white ...

In 1808, the international slave trade was abolished in the United States. But slavers continued to operate covertly and, ...

In “The Rush,” Nathaniel Philbrick paints a portrait of the treasure seekers, prospectors and conniving politicians who ...

I also think it’s not morally correct, you know? You don’t give out remedies to people who haven’t experienced the harm.” ...

U.S. Freedmen Project activists argue immigrants and non-foundational Black Americans should be excluded from reparations for ...

Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings. To put it more bluntly: The primary author of the Declaration of ...

Few events have shaped the United States as profoundly as the American Civil War. Fought from 1861 to 1865, the conflict ...

KING Charles will not apologise for Britain’s role in the slave trade on an official tour of the Caribbean amid calls for ...

Cabral Gunter, owner of Cabral’s Caribbean Store at 300 Main Street in Oneonta, was the featured guest speaker. He read three of his father’s poems about slavery in Jamaica.

Texas spent nearly a decade as an independent republic before becoming the 28th U.S. state in 1845. Its annexation was ...

Sylvia A. Alvarez presented her memoirs about her mother 'Chelo' at the Tampa Bay History Center, a Cuban who went from ...

I am an American citizen.  The US Constitution is a fine document anchored in general principles of law, on democratic ...