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The state-owned traffic triangle at the intersection of America's Cup and Upper Thames Street is planned to house the ...
The historical marker for the St. Louis Hotel, the most famous slave auction site in New Orleans, is placed at the back of ...
Outside of historians, academics and the generational memories of Black New Orleanians, relatively few people understand the ...
Their story is one of tragedy and resilience. Captive Africans are taken by boat to the slave ship Clotilda in 1860, at a slave port in what's now Benin. In 1860—52 years after the United States ...
In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...
Two Navy SEALs are facing disciplinary action after they were caught spreading racist memes of a fellow Black sailor.
A former Black Navy SEAL will be reinstated after two Navy SEALs who purportedly shared racist memes face disciplinary action ...
In Freedom Ship, Marcus Rediker (a professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and author, among other books, of The ...
Two Navy SEALs face discipline over racist memes targeting a Black sailor. The sailor's SEAL status is now reinstated after ...
Rep. Jennifer McClellan shared her family’s deep roots in America’s history of racism and resilience, highlighting how ...
Two Navy SEALs based in Virginia are facing disciplinary action for racist conduct, and several of their platoon and team ...
Archaeologists are shedding light on the astonishing identification of two 18th-century slave ships off the coast of Central America. The ships, named Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus ...