Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama speaks during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters ...

HENDERSON, N.C. (WTVD) -- Following through on a promise to build his grandchildren a space to play, Kenneth Spellman discovered his newly purchased property held priceless stories of North Carolina's ...

Europeans built the first 'slave castle' more than 500 years ago on Ghana’s west coast. Countless enslaved people were ...

The museum acquired the collection, the largest and most complete set of Charleston slave badges, in 2022. 146 slave badges from Charleston, South Carolina. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian National ...

At the Tate Modern museum in London, they've just reopened after the coronavirus lockdown, to discover that the installation – thought to be bold when it first opened in the museum's enormous entrance ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — As the campaign to quash the teachings of America’s brutal history of slavery intensifies, Joseph McGill Jr. has waged a counterattack by way of a poignant three-day conference in ...

The U.S. voted against the measure because it "does not recognize a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred" UN ...

NEW ORLEANS – Thousands of tourists stream into the French Quarter each year through beautiful Esplanade Avenue, an oak tree-studded stretch known for its Creole cottages. The tremendous trees are a ...

In "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon & Schuster), author Ilyon Woo recounts a remarkable 19th century story of deception, in which a fair-skinned enslaved ...

His account of bondage in Edenton described men flogged 100 times and doused with brandy to increase the pain, and white owners so cruel they whipped other people’s slaves for failing to tip their ...