Historically, the triangular trade among Europe, West Africa and the New World ran on the backs of millions of enslaved people. During the June 2015 ROADSHOW in Spokane, Washington, a guest brought in ...

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

Slavery—and it’s harrowing and depraved legacy—still has modern-day repercussions for Black Americans. It lasted four centuries and was the worst crime against humanity this country has ever committed ...

I see memorialization as the physical manifestation of our collective experience, memory and history. Our engagement with these spaces allows us to simultaneously reach back into the past and project ...

A life-sized bronze memorial, "Our Ancestors Come With Us," has been unveiled in Bristol, Rhode Island, acknowledging the town's role in the transatlantic slave trade. The memorial, created by RISD ...

In the powerful new history “The Zorg,” Siddharth Kara tells a shocking story of mass killing, human baseness and the seeds of conscience. The horrifying case of ...

LONDON -- For someone who died nearly three centuries ago, Edward Colston has become a symbol for the Black Lives Matter movement in Britain. The toppling of his statue in Bristol, a city in the ...