documents granting individual slaves their freedom and newspapers such as William Lloyd Garrison’s militant Liberator, the first in the United States to call for immediate abolition. And they ...

The Philanthropist, James Birney’s abolitionist newspaper, started in 1836. Thankfully someone saved these publications at the time. Then some wise librarians put the pages on microfilm ...

This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...

David Hoffmann, the latest billionaire plunging into the newspaper business, may be the most ambitious one yet. A lifelong newspaper fan who made his fortune with an executive recruiting firm ...

DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

Nigerian-Global Afrobeats star CKay has officially concluded his recording agreement with Warner Music South Africa, marking the end of a defining era in his career. The artist, known for his ...

Witnesses at the beach said they saw blood in the water and said that they saw someone screaming for help. Information ...

10 years since his passing, Galeano’s oeuvre casts a long shadow—not only in Latin America’s letters, but in the region’s political identity. This is episode 20 of Stories of Resistance.

The Trump administration believes it can send anyone it wants, without due process or future legal recourse, to rot in a foreign prison. It has argued as much in court. Lawyers for the Justice ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a painting by Luis de Morales (1505-86)—the Spanish Renaissance artist referred to by some early sources as “El Divino”—that recently underwent ...