A proposal to sell a city-owned golf course built on top of the burial grounds for enslaved people is sparking public outcry ...

Juneteenth has been celebrated since 1866 and commemorates June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger told slaves in ...

The New Orleans 10 weren’t just running from justice — they were running in a world where political escape has become ...

The Houston farmer is hosting a Watermelon Patch event, which will take place Saturday, June 19, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the farm (4506 Fuqua St). Watermelons have a rich history in Texas — one she ...

Faith and courage are often not far apart. It often takes a mixture of both to weather the scorn of those who may disagree or to say something important knowing that it may be unpopular. The history ...

President Donald Trump is reportedly having his administration review photography related to slavery in national parks in the United States. The Washington Post reports it’s being done with an eye ...

British workhouses were intimately bound up with slavery and imperialism throughout the early modern period, new research from Cardiff University finds. Published in the journal Antipode, the article ...

On June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Order No. 3. The message was ...

The Transatlantic Slave Trade is not just Black history—it is American history, and Black Americans lived it. Their ancestors were violently torn from their homes, forced into brutal labor, and ...

Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier on Thursday compared Texas Democrats intentionally fleeing a redistricting vote to escaping slavery and the Holocaust. Collier claimed that she and other ...

Texas state representative Nicole Collier (D) compared herself and her peers to runaway slaves, as well as Jews during the Holocaust this week. During a debate in the state capitol, Collier — who was ...