The new abolitionists emerge Jumoke Emery’s path to rethinking the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery started in a Colorado jail cell. It was 2014, and the then-27-year-old community organizer had ...

Read Part 1, Part 3 and Part 4 of this story. Just as terrorism is on everyone’s watchlist today, slavery was the issue du jour during the years preceding the Civil War. The Revolutionary War had ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to museum director Ebony Howard about a new exhibit in Harpersville, Ala., that explores the lives of several Black families after emancipation. Harpersville is a small ...

A: Black and white abolitionists often had different agendas by the 1840s, and certainly in the 1850s. But one of the greatest frustrations that many black abolitionists faced was the racism they ...

The 1831 painting by British artist Emma Jones centers two Black girls as its sole subjects—at the time, an extraordinary and radical act in European painting ...

Black parents should take matters into their own hands and educate their children themselves, at home and on weekends, due to the systemic racism in the K-12 school system that was never built for ...

In the eyes of many black Americans, the United States needs to make a fundamental acknowledgement of slavery. For more and more blacks, an apology is not enough; that acknowledgement, they feel, ...

People across Washington are celebrating Juneteenth on Thursday, the holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. June 19 holds significant meaning for both American ...

From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history Trump’s first and second terms have been marked by huge protests, from the 2017 Women’s ...

There is a moment in Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel “Invisible Man,” when the narrator arrives in New York City and is amazed by what he perceives as the unlimited freedom enjoyed by the city’s Black ...

For people who risked peril and death crossing the Mason-Dixon line to freedom from slavery, the Ohio River was like the Jordan River in that it offered the hope of emancipation. Although Ohio was a ...