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You may not have been aware of the first African movie musical, but it saw its debut in 1979 and has now been restored and re-released. Created by Mauritanian

Fall River is getting closer to opening a museum dedicated to the history of the Underground Railroad, but it needs your help to make it happen.

It would seem that Hollywood has discovered Africa again. But how does all the new American content about Africa’s past compare to a previous generation of African-made movies on the same topic?

For Juneteenth, a celebration of the liberation and escape that Black Americans found on horses. 

Lysander Spooner, in his 1850 Defence for Fugitive Slaves, took apart the notion that the Constitution means what the courts tell us it means - until they change their minds.

Art exhibition on now to May 13

While efforts to end slavery continue, it is important to remember what motivated the abolition movement in Western Civilization.

A new book offers the first full-length biography of newspaper editor, labor leader and minister Samuel Ringgold Ward

Instead of using the secret routes along the Underground Railroad to find freedom in the North, thousands of enslaved Black people fled to free Black communities in Southern slaveholding states.

The honorary lecture series is deemed the highest honor the federal government gives for intellectual achievement in the humanities.