The economic deprivation still experienced by Black Americans is the flip side of the privilege enjoyed by slaveowners’ descendants.

While Pennsylvania and Philadelphia have become focal points in the fight over America’s history, the Pennsylvania Capital-Star spoke to historian Kathleen Brown, a University of Pennsylvania ...

Attorney and civil rights activist Michael Coard explains the history of the memorial, the latest in the lawsuit over it, and ...

OP-ED. Professor emerita Marie-Jeanne Rossignol draws a parallel between anti-ICE activists, who whistle to alert immigrant communities of the arrival of agents, and the abolitionists who once posted ...

Writing at Salon, Andrew O’Hehir says that the poisonous effects of white supremacy, clearly depicted in 12 Years a Slave, “endure in American politics” and were on full display during the 16-day ...

Around 3 p.m. Thursday, an Independence Park employee who would not give his name told an Inquirer reporter that his ...

A holiday that is spreading across the U.S. and beyond, Juneteenth is considered the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. It was originally celebrated on ...

Artist George Fuller created this painting in 1857, after witnessing a young Black girl being sold at auction in Augusta, GA, during his tour of the South. He never knew her name, and no historical ...

This journalistic essay examines contemporary slavery as a structural regime of the current global order rather than as a residual anomaly, a marginal ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte embarked upon a military expedition to Egypt in 1798, he took with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental Description de ...

(CNN) — The City of Philadelphia is suing the Trump administration after the National Park Service removed a long-standing exhibit on slavery in the city’s Independence National Historical Park. The ...