In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

The city’s early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New ...

Lawmakers in the House and Senate have filed versions of the same bill to add protections to the Heritage Act, which protects ...

The sun wasn't up yet when a dozen people began to gather on Wednesday at an all-Black cemetery in this South Texas border town as they prepared to retrace the steps that slaves took on the ...

South Carolina is one of 18 states that joined a Supreme Court brief supporting an executive order to end birthright ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, gave a keynote at the United Nations’ annual ceremony in observance of the ...

Beyoncé's song "16 CARRIAGES" serves as a historical reflection on the Black experience during Reconstruction, symbolizing ...

The Sherman Theatre in Cardiff was looking for stories that spoke to a Welsh audience at the time and representatives ...

At the top of a tree-covered hill off South Pifer Road, a little known but significant piece of history lies hidden beneath ...

She said she was drawn to South Texas after reading an article about the Underground Railroad and a cemetery that holds the remains of a family that helped slaves cross from what is now Pharr ...

The pastor of an evangelical church with ties to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth once claimed slavery promoted “affection between the races” in the South. Doug Wilson, founder of the Communion of ...