The FBI is now investigating these texts, which have been sent to Black people across the country in the wake of Donald Trump ...

Over 12 U.S. presidents—more than a quarter—owned slaves during their lives. The White House serves as both the official ...

Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” ...

The NAACP civil rights group and the White House condemned racist text messages referencing slavery that were sent ...

This claim regarding the Harris heritage received renewed interest following the VP's announcement of her candidacy for U.S.

House servants would come down from the ... to escape punishment and to be skeptical of anything a white person said. Many slave parents told their children that blacks were superior to white ...

The FBI and the FCC have weighed in on the messages that multiple Black people across the country received on Wednesday.

A black man has ascended to the White House 200 years after the birth of the president who ended slavery. History remembers Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, but what were his actual views ...

Obama, in her speech, had spoken to the significance of being the first African-American family in the White House. "I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves," Obama said.

Melvinia is believed to be one of the two female slaves on the Shields farm. The slaves are listed by age and gender -- not by name -- on this 1860 tally of human property. Henry Shields is second ...

the evolution his own views on slavery and race, and even what would today be thought of as minor acts, such as his unprecedented reception of African American men and women as guests in the White ...

All eyes are on vote counts in pivotal U.S. House races Friday as both political parties hope to seize control of the lower ...