An exhibition in Gee’s Bend, AL tells the story of Dinah Miller’s arrival and her enduring influence on the community, its ...

The Middle Passage has been a touchstone of storytelling for generations — the television series “Roots” and Charles Johnson’s award-winning “Middle Passage” spring to mind — but no artistic work can ...

During the Middle Passage more than a 1,000 slave ships sank on the way from Africa to the Americas, drowning an estimated 1.8 million people, most of them Africans. Less than 20 of those sunken slave ...

Graduates will receive a certificate issued by DHL Global Forwarding. The Pollee and Rose Allen School of Logistics & Trade, a free trade school, has started the second semester of its online program ...

Benin's Justice Minister Yvon Détchénou (right) presents citizenship documents to U.S. singer Ciara at a ceremony in Cotonou, Benin, Saturday July 26, 2025. DAKAR, Senegal — U.S. singer Ciara is one ...

Editor’s note: The following report is part of a Verite News series: “Devil’s Bargain: How the slave trade built and sustained New Orleans” “In the same way that Detroit is shorthand for auto ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a tragic story of enslavement and commerce from the time of the trans-Atlantic ...

THE USS CONSTELLATION IS A FIXTURE IN BALTIMORE’S INNER HARBOR. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE PASS BY IT EVERY DAY. MOST HAVE NO IDEA THE ROLE IT PLAYED IN ENDING THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. IN TERMS OF THE ...

An immersive new exhibition at the Intrepid Museum in New York City spotlights the science and technology behind the discipline Aurora Martínez - Staff Contributor "Mysteries From the Deep: Exploring ...

In July 1860, just a few days after Americans celebrated the country’s independence, a schooner slipped into Alabama’s Mobile Bay, carrying 110 captives. Their first exposure to the land of the free ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The spotlight was shining again today in Mobile on the Clotilda. The annual Landing Event Ceremony took place this morning for the Clotilda at Bay Bridge Road under the ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the US in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony. Attendees, many of them ...