White and Black women have joined together to power progressive causes — from abolition to civil rights — but it’s a tenuous alliance. By Nikole Hannah-Jones Nikole Hannah-Jones is a ...

One of contentious parts of the history of the American Civil War is the question of whether southern blacks served as ...

Indeed, Douglass and other black abolitionists condemned slavery ... less restrictive than the best of what could be achieved by white American men, even as Black women uniquely withstood ...

Using an interactive online map, the project shows how Black American abolitionists were at the heart of the campaign to end slavery, including by travelling abroad to raise awareness of the issue ...

In 2016, a University of Chicago scholar stumbled across an extraordinary piece of writing that had been lost for nearly two ...

The proposal was rejected and followed by violence and legal retaliation against the Black citizens and White abolitionists of New Haven. A 2021 documentary about the story, produced by the ...

That was less true, perhaps, for a significant group of Black abolitionist writers who clearly understood Jefferson’s vision ... in the early 19th century even as the popularity of artificial ...

(AP video: Joseph B. Frederick) The campus of Yale University is seen, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, in New Haven, Conn. In 1831, a coalition of Black leaders and white abolitionists proposed the nation’s ...

In a groundbreaking initiative, Historic England has unveiled the Missing Pieces Project, which recounts the overlooked tales of 19th-century Black American abolitionists who campaigned fervently ...

We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition is a call to rethink and re-practice the deeper everyday meaning, existential vitality and vulnerability of abolition praxis. As a co-parent of ...

Black activists spoke to royalty and the aristocracy, reformers, merchants, newspaper editors and working-class communities, Murray said. Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, one of the most ...

LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A British heritage organisation has launched a project to tell the forgotten story of 19th century Black American abolitionists who raised their voices against racism and ...