The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and ...

An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape slavery. Some fugitives took to the sea.

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

He saw violence as a tool of resistance against the oppression of Black people. Malcolm X, who was born 100 years ago, ...

A journey to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture took me places I will not soon forget.

Medieval Bengal’s links to the Straits world, a narrow stretch of water connecting to Southeast Asia and beyond, are overlooked. This world saw not only ocean-going vessels, but also coastal and ...

Some of the nicest people I know have schizoid PD and are silently suffering the aftereffects of an abusive childhood that ...

History never ceases to surprise us with recent discoveries, as has happened in Costa Rica, as several scientific analyses have confirmed that the wooden ships shipwrecked off its ...

The owner of the space, Alexis Noble, said they extended the exhibit because it coincidentally has ties to the new Blockbuster film "Sinners," which is based in Mississippi.

Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an "aggressive form" of prostate that has spread to his bones but is ...

Followed by our monarchy, the papacy is the West’s oldest institution. The enormous interest in the first Anglosphere pope in ...