Tech companies are offering AI companions as a convenient cure for the loneliness epidemic, but there have been other forms of faux relationships, and they tend to have more to do with ego than heart.

An alliance of Jesuits and descendants of those the order once enslaved aims to achieve restorative justice by modeling terms ...

This is the third in a series of columns about Black history as the nation observes Black History Month. The slaves who ...

Enslaved fugitives referred to the Ohio River as the River Jordan. It was a metaphor for freedom like the Israelites’ flight from slavery in Egypt through the parted waters of the Red Sea. Except the ...

Howard Swint of Charleston wrote an opinion piece in the Gazette-Mail advocating the removal of the statue of Thomas A.

Research has revealed that the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSPC), once the largest British shipping company during the ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Enslaved griots were the originators of the tales of Bre’r Rabbit, sharing adapted West African fables after long days working. "This is Black history," says one historian.

Reparations demand from Antigua prime minister Gaston Browne comes after a team from Harvard University visited the island ...

Descendants of people who were used as slaves have made 127 requests to change their surname up to May 2024. Of these, 88 ...