Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ... a wealthy plantation owner by the name of Memorable Creagh.

The critiques of figures like Garvey, Carmichael, Newton, and Baldwin remind us of historical patterns of resistance and ...

"Living Legacies," a celebration of Black history, took place Saturday at Magnolia Plantation & Gardens.Guided by historians ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly ...

At first glance, birthright citizenship and slavery may seem like separate issues, but their histories are deeply intertwined, rooted in the same constitutional principles and shaped by racial and ...

In “four more years, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians,” he said. As a scholar of religion and public life for the past 30 years ...

Members of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative met with Prime ... for Harvard’s ties to Isaac Royall Jr., who owned a plantation in Antigua. Royall funded Harvard’s first ...

For Christians, that last point is especially troubling. When asked about Jesus, Catholicism, the Vatican-China deal, the one-child policy and Christian persecution in China, DeepSeek-R1 revealed ...

The joys and struggles of the bygone days of the Westside’s Japanese plantation workers are celebrated ... were saying as they were treated as slaves. So it would be nice to remember these ...

An assignment given to sixth grade social studies students at Nitschmann Middle School asking what they would do in scenarios that involved slavery was “inappropriate” and “completely ...

It was panned by historians and scholars who said it credited Christianity for many of the positive turns in U.S. history without mentioning the religion’s role in perpetuating slavery ...