NEW YORK (AP) — Books on slavery, the justice system, poverty and gender identity are among this year’s finalists for J.

A Presbyterian church in North Baltimore is using a new art work by a muralist to help reconcile its racist past, including ...

Long-obscured and forgotten, the burial plots of more than two dozen people enslaved by the seventh president of the US are ...

An alliance of Jesuits and descendants of those the order once enslaved aims to achieve restorative justice by modeling terms of an 1838 slave sale.

Slaves do not own their own labor. The maximum tax rate on a 19th century plantation slave’s labor was 50%, as half of his ...

Feb. 19, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. This program tells the forgotten true story of an African prince who was enslaved in ...

The final twist to the story is that, thanks to an act of grace and courage by a modern lawyer, Jack McGee, the home site of ...

When Sara Lucy Bagby Johnson died in 1906 she had lived a quiet life for many years. There is the only one known picture of ...

With new show “Savor The City,” popular chef Jernard Wells explores the delicious intersection between African American ...

Our strength lies in a large political message, a large moral vision, a large mobilization of people, and that’s our only ...