AP Exclusive: Smithsonian museum will revamp its slavery exhibit after artifact loan runs out

A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, when a remnant from ...
TheCable

Mahama: US slowly normalising erasure of Black history

Ghanaian President John Mahama says the United States is “slowly normalising” the erasure of Black history. Mahama spoke at ...
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Lancaster students uncover city’s history of slavery

LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) — There’s no shortage of history in Lancaster ahead of the United States’ 250th anniversary. One of the nation’s oldest inland cities, it was once the U.S. capital — for a ...
Opinion

A Bitter Irony: 9 Hollywood Films On Slavery, As US Rejects UN Resolution Against Enslavement

Explore nine powerful Hollywood films that confront the legacy of American slavery just as the US votes against a UN resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against ...
The Nation

Slavery Was Not Just Forced Labor but Sexual Violence Too

Calls to attenuate the brutality of slavery in museum depictions is absurd when our institutions already downplay one of its most horrific features. A broadside advertising a slave auction outside ...