Antonio De La Garza grew up in what he describes as a “pretty rural” part of Idaho where his family experienced a lot of ...

In Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World (Monthly Review Press, 2025), Steve Cushion lays bare the ...

WILLEMSTAD - Religious leaders, scholars, and social organizations from three continents have gathered in Curaçao this week ...

The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology.

ICE violence does not exist within a vacuum. It didn’t come out of nowhere. This is how it feels to be Black and policed in ...

The crisis had begun with slavery. Of the more than 3 million Black Americans in 1848, nearly 90% were held in bondage. They lived and worked on Southern farms owned by the same white men who claimed ...

In 1857, the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott ruling denied Black citizenship, upheld slavery, and stands as one of the Court's ...

Resistance to the Atlantic slave system constituted “perhaps the largest, longest-running, and most diverse ongoing insurrection the world has ever known,” according to this magisterial account from ...

A portrait of Harriet Tubman (ca. 1820-1913). Tubman, herself an escaped slave, helped hundreds of slaves escape the South by means of the Underground Railroad. She nursed Union troops during the ...

Many Americans today mistakenly believe that slavery was invented by America or that it existed only in the context of the transatlantic slave trade. This narrow view—often echoed in modern demands ...

“The enslaved rebelled against their captivity throughout the entire [400-year] period” of the Atlantic slave system, according to this stunning revisionist saga. Historian Hazareesingh (Black ...