On Monday, faith leaders including Bishop William Barber led demonstrations in 11 southern states to protest President ...

Proposed slavery and segregation exhibit incites legal fight over Confederate legacy and whitewashed nostalgia.

Lincoln was, as usual, astute. The abolitionist movement in the North was led by Christians convinced that God abhorred ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

The Anti-Masons were the first recognized third party. It was formed in 1828 in opposition to the Freemasons, a secret ...

Four cultural stewards of sustainability unpack how indigo embodies Black fashion’s legacy of labor, innovation, and enduring ...

A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to ...

Elon Musk’s plan to create a new political party puts him in the company of a long line of business and political titans looking to upend the two-party system that has dominated U.S. politics since al ...

The Sons of Confederate Veterans sued Stone Mountain Park over its plans to present an exhibit on slavery and white supremacy ...

The Rev. Diane Badger, the administrator of the American Baptist Church of Massachusetts who oversees the archive, teamed up ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...