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

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

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 ...

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

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

efforts to pay reparations to the newly freed slaves were squashed. President Andrew Johnson, who took over after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, did not want to alienate white southerners during ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Trump didn't extend the same invitation to Biden when he was defeated in 2020 as he refused to concede the election results.

Plus: Republicans have won control of the Senate. Americans voted to protect abortion rights in several states, while a ...