Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been ...

A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to ...

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...

An elaborate ceremony with colorfully-dressed dancers and decorated elephants was held in Jaipur, India, as U.S. Vice ...

Tara Roberts recently wrote that between the 16th and 19th centuries, thousands of African slaves on slave ships drowned when the ships they were on sank (“Written in the Waters: A Memoir of ...

This exhibition includes a life-size slave ship and accounts of those who survived the journey. The museum has hosted memorial services for Rosa Parks and Aretha Franklin, and sponsors the annual ...

When I posted the side–by-side photos from CECOT and a slave ship, one Black Orthodox rabbi I know replied to my post that “anytime they want to manipulate African Americans for a political ...

It seems as if the entire, dishonorable history of U.S. lawlessness in Latin America is distilled in the saga of Kilmar Ábrego García: the man whose illegal deportation to El Salvador and ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...