In 1839, Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinque, along with hundreds of others from the West African village of Mendeland, ...

An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape bondage. Some fugitives took to the sea.

The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and enabled enslaved people to escape as stowaways in below-deck hideaways.

A journey to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture took me places I will not soon forget.

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 ...

HMS Dragon destroys supersonic missile in historic first during NATO exercise. During the exercise HMS Dragon was working ...

History never ceases to surprise us with recent discoveries, as has happened in Costa Rica, as several scientific analyses have confirmed that the wooden ships shipwrecked off its ...

Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch.

A National Museum of African American History and Culture Exhibition frames the history of slavery in a global context ...

A host of beloved authors have new books hitting shelves this week, including a memoir by humorist Barry, a Mark Twain bio by ...

The quiet part behind what it's doing isn’t even being whispered anymore. The bias, the racism, the white supremacy, the hate ...