HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Exactly 160 years ago on Dec. 18, 1865, the U.S. adopted the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Roots 101's latest artifact was tucked away in a barn loft in Shelby County, near Louisville, for more than a century. Lamont Collins, the founder of the Roots 101 African American ...

One Thousand Years of Slavery, a riveting new docu-series exploring the legacy of slavery and how our shared history can create a better future, will air on Smithsonian Channel in 2022. Watch Full ...

It's a surprising and overlooked story, a blind spot in the narrative of early America: the hidden history of Indigenous ...

For more than 150 years, June 19 has been a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. Communities across the country will mark the day in 1865 when slaves in Texas learned that they, ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read through a ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The city of Richmond carries a legacy tethered to the formation of the United States of America. Many of our founding fathers spent time in Richmond, but it also played a key ...

He spoke at a museum where millions of African slaves were baptized. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, during his diplomatic trip to Angola, acknowledged America's "original sin" of slavery and the ...

The controversial Florida social studies curriculum that includes a lesson on how "slaves developed skills" that could be used for "their personal benefit" is over 200 pages long, with plans for ...