NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Civil Rights icon Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and renowned journalist Stacy M. Brown collaborated on the groundbreaking book The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500 ...

Washington, D.C. – Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., a lifelong civil rights leader and president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), has released “The Transatlantic Slave Trade ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres Monday stated that education is critical to combating racism and other vices bred by decades of slavery. Guterres’ comments occurred at a UN General Assembly ...

SANTOS, Brazil (Reuters) - Helena Monteiro da Costa's father was brought from Angola to Brazil as an enslaved person in the 19th century. Next year the 99-year-old hopes she can take part on a ...

Let me at the outset recognize and welcome among us here today our Keynote Speaker, Sir Hilary Beckles, the Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, as well as Youth Speaker Yolanda King ...

Slavery—and it’s harrowing and depraved legacy—still has modern-day repercussions for Black Americans. It lasted four centuries and was the worst crime against humanity this country has ever committed ...

25 March 2018 - Honouring those who suffered the brutalities of the Transatlantic slave trade, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said the International Day set aside to remember this ...

The movement’s lawyers want detailed language delineating what constitutes involuntary servitude so courts can be compelled to defend prisoners’ rights against forced labor. At the same time, ...

The Park District of Oak Park won't offer a summer program that would have allowed participants to "cook and investigate the history and flavors of the transatlantic slave trade" in response to ...

London is planning to unveil the U.K.’s first memorial commemorating the victims of transatlantic slave trade. The city is aiming to have it ready for the public it in the summer of 2026, according to ...