As federal judges block parts of Trump's agenda, some have issued dramatic and emotional opinions with their orders.

In Hulu’s soapy “Washington Black,” about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem yanked the protections for the three nations in June and July and offered each a ...

Many African abolitionists who fought and lost their lives in the struggle against slavery have gone unacknowledged.

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.

Ciara, the R&B singer, has become a citizen of Benin under a government scheme for the descendants of African slaves.

A recent law passed by the West African country of Benin grants citizenship to anyone who can show they are descended from ...