In this adapted extract from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met wi ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years The British crown and the navy expanded and protected the trade in enslaved African ...

Ghana, CARICOM and the African Union (AU) are working in partnership in advancing a Resolution at the United Nations (UN).

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

Historians and advocates are urging King Charles to formally apologise for Britain’s role in sustaining the transatlantic ...

A woman who was taken from Africa when she was just two years old has been identified as the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. A woman who was taken from Africa when she was just ...

The recent opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is part of a long and slow national reckoning on race, but some chapters on race are still missing from ...

When you see African art in the United States, Brazil or the Caribbean, you are often looking at Yoruba culture. The film ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- If you look closely at the logo for the Shockoe Institute, you will notice ripples emanating from a small circle: Shockoe Bottom. A thoughtful design like this is a key component of ...

SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - Eighty-five years to the day that his grandmother passed away, John Crear is remembering her legacy. Her name was Matilda McCrear, and she was the last known survivor of the ...