Ghana will submit a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly in March to designate the African slave trade as "the ...

A University of Connecticut professor and reparations expert spoke to the African American Cultural Center (AACC) about his research on U.S. reparations for slavery on Wednesday.

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African Union leaders meeting at at a two-day summit in Addis Ababa have adopted a resolution that describes slavery, ...

Who are we looking for, who are we looking for? It's Equiano we're looking for. Has he gone to the stream? Let him come back. Has he gone to the farm? Let him return. It's Equiano we're looking for. - ...

Historical injustices such as slavery and colonialism are not just matters of the past but active forces shaping present-day ...

Prologue: Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery -- The political economy of slavery in Africa -- Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 -- Slavery and the African population: a ...

Vice President Kamala Harris became visibly emotional Tuesday during a visit to a colonial-era African slave fort, lamenting the fate of millions of captives who passed through a “door of no return” ...

Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction.

For Harpham’s explanation of how England came to view the enslavement of others as both a violation of nature and a legitimate institution, all roads ultimately lead back to Rome, and Roman law in ...