THE USS CONSTELLATION IS A FIXTURE IN BALTIMORE’S INNER HARBOR. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE PASS BY IT EVERY DAY. MOST HAVE NO IDEA THE ROLE IT PLAYED IN ENDING THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. IN TERMS OF THE ...

Reparations are actions, measures, payments and policies designed to repair past wrongs, grave injustice such as slavery, the ...

Pope Leo XIV visited a historic Angolan shrine once tied to the trans-Atlantic slave trade on Sunday, recalling the “sorrow and great suffering” endured by generations of Africans. His remarks come ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday recalled the “sorrow and great suffering” Angolans endured for centuries, as the American pope prayed at a Catholic shrine located at the site of an important hub of the African ...

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

The latest edition of The Toyin Falola Interviews aired on Sunday, drawing an impressive lineup of global historians who examined the intersection of women, slavery, and power under the theme, “Global ...

The U.N. General Assembly voted to declare the African slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity" on Wednesday, March 25. The vote also included a resolution calling for reparations. The vote ...

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday designated the transatlantic African slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity," despite opposition by the United States and some European countries. In a ...

Slavery is a horrific institution that has plagued human civilization for thousands of years. However, don’t tell this to the United Nations, for the intergovernmental agency created as a response to ...