Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sculpture at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama, showing the faces of the enslaved. The park depicts the ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A new monument dedicated to the African-Americans who fought for freedom in the U.S. was unveiled in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday, just weeks after the city removed one of the ...

Bryan Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, has spent much of his career studying how slavery has shaped American life. But until 2021, he had never visited a plantation. When he ...

At the park, the history and life stories of enslaved and Indigenous people are told alongside beautiful works of art by Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, Alison Saar, Kehinde Wiley, and many others. Simone Leigh’s ...