In 1985, one department store manager described the day after Thanksgiving as "a black cloud hanging over" his employees.

The August Wilson adaptation “The Piano Lesson" is an impassioned family drama but it is also a profound ghost story ...

A HARD HISTORY: Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar Kristina Richardson presents in Kresge Auditorium. Richardson’s lecture ...

Stearlin Arnwine, Image courtesy of Candice Hammons (Photo Credit: Federal Writer's Project, United States Work Projects ...

Many people believe that slavery in Latin America was a benevolent institution. Several scholars and students think that slave owners freed their slaves out of pure generosity, embracing the idea that ...

Harriet Tubman was posthumously awarded the rank of brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard on Monday in recognition ...

and the ancient forms of just-title slavery. A few days before, he also issued a Brief, entitled Pastorale Officium to Cardinal Juan de Tavera of Toledo, which warned the Catholic faithful of ...

Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country ...

The day after the presidential election, I walked into my school building, and before I could enter my office, a student, who ...

The day after the presidential election, I walked into my school building, and before I could enter my office, a student, who ...

It was a scene played out exactly as it was retold by Israel Gilette, a man once enslaved by Thomas Jefferson.