The past week thrust the history of Africans and Black people back into the global spotlight. Ghana co-sponsored a United Nations resolution declaring the Transatlantic Slave Trade the worst crime ...

I write with a deep sense of anger. Not the kind that clouds judgment, but the kind that comes from witnessing repeated hypocrisy dressed up as principle.

Ghana cannot demand justice from the world while avoiding justice at home. That is the uncomfortable truth at the heart of the government’s recent motion at the United Nations to classify the Atlantic ...

Only free people, free speech and press and freedom to gather in protests can continually uncover unjust aspects of society that develop in hidden ways.

Elizabeth Freeman’s landmark 1781 lawsuit transformed revolutionary ideals into legal reality, setting precedent that led to the collapse of slavery in Massachusetts.

The most profound aspect of the Passover Seder is that we aren’t just reciting history. In fact, the Haggadah barely focuses on the historical facts at all – Moses, the central figure of the era, is ...

From Argentina to Siam and the Ottoman Empire, these lesser-known figures of Greek descent played key roles in shaping world history.

Jesse James was a name to be feared in America, but his family roots lie in a small Welsh village.

Lessons about Chavez, long seen as an iconic Latino leader and the force behind the farmworker movement, look to be changing.