As we prepare to celebrate Emancipation Day this Friday, we are called to reflect not only on our past, but also on the ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

A memorial to enslaved Africans transported on Lancaster-owned ships as part of the Transatlantic slave trade has been ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony.

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

It's been about one year since Ronald Silver II, a DPW worker, died while on the job due to heat exhaustion. Now his family, ...

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

When famed pirates overtook a Portuguese ship in 1721 once laden with treasure (now valued over $138 million), the battle ...

Attendees, many of them dressed in white, gathered near Africatown Bridge on the banks of the river, where the ship remains submerged because it is too decayed to be extracted.

There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.

Red valerian or Jupiter’s beard (Centranthus ruber) is a long-blooming perennial from the western Mediterranean that will ...