Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

Monroe County Executive Adam Bello said the millions of travelers who pass through the airport each year will be able to pause and reflect on Douglass' life and work.

A new biography of the iconic abolitionist and activist hopes to add nuance and complexity to Tubman and her legacy of freedom and service. Written by Harvard University Prof. Tiya Miles, ...

A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to ...

There is an exciting new addition on display at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, ...

EDUCATION Abolitionist Teaching Network, far left group cited by Biden administration, has deep ties in US academia The Abolitionist Teaching Network's Activists in Residence program pays ...

Several years ago, Leroy Graham, a Baltimore historian and author of Baltimore: The 19th Century Black Capital , wrote a monograph on a little-remembered incident that predated the Amistad affair o… ...

After 200 years, the nation’s first abolitionist newspaper is returning–and it couldn’t have come back at a better time. In an unfortunate way, what is old often becomes new again when ...

Stacey Abrams is tied to multiple groups and people who support the defund the police and abolitionist movements despite characterizing herself as a pro-law enforcement candidate.

The first abolitionist newspaper, The Emancipator, is being revived since it began 200 years ago as the fight over critical race theory in schools continues to escalate in the U.S.

Charles Sumner was an outspoken abolitionist, American lawyer, politician, and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate. On May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks, a ...

The abolitionist history of the pumpkin. Pumpkins were always a strange romance. The orange field pumpkin is impressively massive. But it is also dry, stringy and a bit tasteless.