This Note analyzes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 as a federal administrative regime that adjudicated core private rights—liberty and property—outside ...

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President Donald Trump hit out at the Supreme Court Monday ahead of oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case.

U.S. aligns with Israel and Argentina to vote against U.N. resolution recognizing transatlantic slave trade as gravest crime ...

Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over the course of a week each spring. It commemorates the Exodus of ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recounted in the Bible. The ...

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with filmmakers Suzannah Herbert and Darcy McKinnon about their new film, "Natchez," about the Mississippi town's antebellum tourism industry.

Born into slavery, Bustill became an entrepreneur, a patriot and one of the founders of a thriving Black Philadelphia.

The resolution passed by the United Nations called slavery the “gravest crime against humanity.” It also raises important questions about America’s economic development and potential reparations.

On April 1, the Supreme Court will hear Trump v. Barbara, which will test the theory that the president, with the stroke of a pen, can strip millions of American-born children of the birthright ...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of President Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship as we have known it. The court’s eventual ...

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.