In 1807, a wealthy 37-year-old scholar was captured in West Africa, in what is now Senegal, and transported to the United States to be sold into slavery. That man, Omar Ibn Said, lived the ...

Dr Lawrence VanHook who will be conducting a Watch Night on New Year's Eve an African American Tradition that began right around emancipation. He was in front of his church on Market St. on ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Decolonizing Faith and Society: There are numerous ways Catholics who believe they are white can take time and space to dwell in and learn from black Americans and Black History Month in February.

These slaves' practices eventually evolved -- decades and decades later, parallel with different singing traditions from Africa -- into the shouts and hollers that begat blues music, historians ...

Ancestry uses lost letters to reunite a former slave's family more than a century later A woman's ancestral search led to a former slave's prayer answered.

The sign reads: “First African Baptist Church. Founded in 1809 as one of the first black Baptist churches in America. Later two members sold themselves into slavery to free a slave to serve as ...

Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory leads a prayer service Feb. 25, 2023, for enslaved people believed to be buried in the cemetery at Sacred Heart Parish in Bowie, Md. The property is on a ...

The Exodus account has nothing to do with the African slave trade or human trafficking. SB 10 passed the Senate and House along party lines by votes of 20-11 and 88-49, respectively.

Kamala Harris, at Former Slave Port in Ghana, Ties Past to Present The vice president leaned into her heritage during a three-nation trip to Africa to strengthen U.S. relations on the continent.

The lives of the enslaved African Americans who lived and worked at Mount Vernon in the late eighteenth century were fairly typical of the lives of slaves on large plantations throughout Virginia.