John Stossel reports on the historical context of slavery in the U.S. with Wilfred Reilly, a politicial science professor and ...

The roots of American slavery precede early modern European thought and extend back to Greece and Rome.

The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...

Langston Hughes, my favorite writer, wrote a poem in 1926, when he was 25 years old. It declared, with a mix of substantial sadness and delicate defiance, "I, too, am America." Born in the long ...

Softening the portrayal of slavery in museums is a dangerous attempt to reshape collective memory. The legacies of slavery, such as racial disparities in incarceration and wealth, continue to impact ...

The Trump/MAGA/White Supremacist administration is ordering the removal of information and depictions of the era of slavery in the United States. One of the most emblematic images of enslavement is ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

Every chapter invokes a name. Among them Sabina, “given” to Mercy and Shubael Taylor (in what is now Yarmouth) in the late ...

Oval portraits depicting "Eminent Opponets of the Slave Power." Undated image. In a recent Truth Social post, Donald Trump accused the Smithsonian of being "OUT OF CONTROL," saying it focuses too much ...

Woolworth Lunch Counter stools are exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14, 2016. Ken Cedeno McClatchy Our current ...

With a last name like Feldkamp, I fully expected my DNA results from 23andMe to confirm what I thought I already knew. My ancestry is predominantly German. But it turns out that no, it isn't. I'm ...

Then-Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz and Gov. Ron DeSantis oversaw the introction of new educational standards that require students to learn that enslaved people “developed skills which, in ...