In 1863, Smalls became captain of the Planter, the first Black man to command a United States vessel. He held this position ...

Enjoy the beach at historic Virginia Key Beach Park PHOTO COURTESY OF MIAMIANDBEACHES.COM On Sunday, June 15, 2025, from 5:30 to 8:30 am, Miami’s decades-long ...

The dots—which represent individual slave ships—also correspond to the size of each voyage. The larger the dot, the more enslaved people on board. And if you pause the map and click on a dot ...

Historic ties between SC and West Africa run deep. A new travel restriction on Sierra Leone could hinder efforts to honor ...

On July 16 on Paris Hill, internationally acclaimed storyteller Antonio Rocha will present the story of Pedro Tovookan Parris ...

Ancient Greek trireme warships, which had three banks of oarsmen, were so effective that they enabled the rise of Athens as a ...

a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship ...

A ‘cultural and political war’ continues in Maryland with reports that the Navy is considering renaming vessels bearing the ...

A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown, a community near Mobile founded by Africans illegally transported to Alabama aboard the slave ship. Some of their descendants ...

When the 160-year-old wreckage of the Clotilda, America’s last known slave ship, was positively identified in the murky waters of the Mobile River in 2019, that was enough for Joycelyn Davis.

List of Navy vessels to possibly be renamed includes Thurgood Marshall and Harriet Tubman - both who have ties to historic ...

The American Civil War ended 160 years ago with the Union victorious and slavery abolished. But many Bristolians supported ...