Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when enslaved men and women in Texas found out they were free. But liberation didn't arrive in one day.

Attorney and civil rights activist Michael Coard explains the history of the memorial, the latest in the lawsuit over it, and what you can do to help.

In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside.

Trump’s efforts to remove Blacks from America’s story have been countered by scholars, activists, judges—and history itself.

There’s a reason for everything. That doesn’t mean an excuse or a guess made of ignorance, but an explanation for what was, a kind of thought process that says if this happens, then that. A reason is ...

Rabbi David Einhorn, an American abolitionist. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, ...

A new film festival is using storytelling to reflect on a difficult chapter of American history.

Editor’s note: After decades of writing the One-on-One column, D.G. Martin has retired. His daughter, May Martin Bryan, will write the column moving forward. It will be published every other week.

Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.

The Trump administration's effort to remove a slavery exhibit at a national historic site in Philadelphia distorts history, while eroding racial justice and healing, several Black Catholic leaders ...