With photos of Harriet Tubman being few and far between, when a rare new photo of her surfaced it was a huge deal. While most photos depict Tubman as an elderly woman, a newly unearthed picture shows a much younger Tubman and was quickly acquired by the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History […]

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The NBA imposed the fine Monday after using the n-word in an interview on Friday.

A new study finds that the counties or areas of the country where slavery was most prevalent today vote Republican and continue to have the least progressive views on race.

The South Mountain Elementary School apologized for the assignment and took the drawings down from the school's hallway.

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The room of Sally Hemings, a slave who had a long-term relationship with Thomas Jefferson, will be excavated at Monticello.

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Rep. John Conyers held a Capitol Hill briefing to spark dialogue about reparations.

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NBC News Los Angeles reports the Los Angeles United School District is investigating a teacher who gave a word problem to 7-year-olds that featured slaves, cotton picking, “masters,” the "missus," and the “Big House.”

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Yale University announced that John C. Calhoun College will be renamed after computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper.

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Lynneice Washington has made history as the first African-American woman to become a District Attorney in the state of Alabama.

Willie Morgan, who hails from Georgia, grows actual cotton in Harlem to teach children in his neighborhood about slavery.