Banzo' writer-director Margarida Cardoso explains how she used the idea of homesickness as a powerful force that dismantles an institution of evil ...

"I believe those holidays were among the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholders of keeping down the spirit of insurrection among the slaves." --Frederick Douglass On Dec. 20, 1837, just ...

*In our exclusive interview with playwright Jeremy O. Harris, he takes us inside his new HBO Original Documentary, “Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.” The project unpacks Harris’s creative journey for ...

An archeological effort in Brazoria County has continued to uncover evidence that the culture of slaves and newly freed sharecroppers was much richer than previously imagined. The Levi Jordan ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the past with men working in the heat on former slave plantations. He’s struck ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Along the Mississippi River sits a winding road; its curvature is aligned with the levee. Centuries-old estates are also abundant, situated on vast grounds upriver from New ...

For the first time in history, two Black women are owners of the land where their ancestors were once enslaved. Co-founders of the Descendants Project, Dr. Joy Banner and her sister Jo Banner, are now ...

Whitney Nell Stewart - Author, This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations To mark her graduation from dental school in 2021, Breanna Henley took photographs in front of a slave ...

British workhouses were intimately bound up with slavery and imperialism throughout the early modern period, new research from Cardiff University finds. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...