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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

racism and white supremacy had been common attitudes in both the North and the South. After the Emancipation Proclamation, when Union troops began to fight for the abolishment of slavery ...

Rev. Joel S. Panzer, The Popes and Slavery, Alba House (1996). Carl Lawrence Paulus, The Slaveholding Crisis: Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War, Louisiana State University Press ...