Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into slavery along the way.

Today, for the first time, Project Ricochet held its Black Family Conference on the campus of the University of Kentucky.

Now, that slaveowner happened to be an out and out sadist. He not only ran a domestic amphitheatre of death, he was more than ...

The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present, the UN Secretary-General said on ...

Through courageous advocacy, intellectualism, cultural leadership, and resilient community-building, these women ...

Paying homage to ‘The Igbo Landing’, the mass suicide in 1803 by captive Igbo people who took control of the slave ship they ...

Half a century ago, the “Rumble in the Jungle” became not just a fight between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, but a ...

Lane Nichols takes a luxury cruise down the mighty Mississippi River and falls in love with New Orleans jazz music, Delta ...