Practically, yes — there are laws against all forms of slavery across the United States. But when you drill down into the weeds, there are three caveats: • The famous 13th Amendment to the ...

Unlike Black children who had to leave their neighborhoods to seek an education, white children in Boston had the option to ...

Maryland lawmakers have approved a measure to create a commission to study and recommend potential benefits as reparations ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

Local historians are planning to erect historic markers to recognize the lives of two enslaved people who once lived in ...

Now, the task force is pushing legislation that would establish a commission to help provide resources, funding and support ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

Utah became the first state in the nation to ban pride flags from all public schools and on all government property after Gov. Spencer Cox allowed a bill prohibiting the display of any non ...

It did not, however, abolish slavery within the British ... 1884), did serve as an MP and the first Mayor of Blackburn. He ...

This story is part of an occasional series on research projects currently in the works at the Law School. The Thirteenth ...

In 1988, Georgia became the first state to outlaw the death penalty for intellectually disabled people. The U.S. Supreme Court followed in 2002, ruling that executing intellectually disabled people ...