There is no telling what you will find searching through old Carroll County records. Recently the name Bernard M. Campbell popped up in books dating to the 1850s and early 1860s. Following Campbell’s ...

More than two centuries ago, an enslaved man named Gabriel was making final preparations to lead a revolt in Richmond that he hoped would spur the end of slavery. He was smart, he was armed and he was ...

The Ocean City Arts Center presents the play "If She Stood" by Ain Gordon this weekend in Cape May Court House.

It was about 25 years ago that I was shocked to learn that slave traders in the 1800s — including one of the era’s biggest — had run a thriving human trafficking business around Baltimore’s lovely ...

The Virginia Theological Seminary, in what is being called a first for an institution of its kind, has set aside $1.7 million in a fund to pay reparations to the descendants of enslaved Africans that ...

ST. LOUIS — Many families can access centuries of history over hours, days, weeks and months, but two women have spent nearly 50 years trying to scratch the surface of just one century. Brenda ...

FILE - A Citibank office is seen in New York on Jan. 13, 2021. Some of the companies that formed what is now Citigroup likely benefitted financially from slavery in the 1800s, the financial giant ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Some of the companies that formed what is now Citigroup likely benefitted financially from slavery in the 1800’s, the financial giant acknowledged Thursday, an admission that comes ...