Today marks the 207th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest Americans to ever live. After he ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

Census showing residents of Yonkers By Dennis Richmond Jr. A conversation about slavery is never easy. It is an open wound, a ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

CW39 Houston's Kara Willis shows reaction from Judge Lina Hidalgo in regards to her former staffer charges getting dropped ...

Texas executed Steven Nelson for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson Wednesday night. It is the second execution of the ...

This image of Susan L. Watson appeared in the Syracuse Sunday Herald on July 26, 1896. The "breaker" of Jerry's shackles ...

Harpreet Singh Laliya wanted to go to Canada. However, a mistake by his agent ensured a perilous journey to the United States.

The chief executive of El Jannah says the cult charcoal chicken chain expects revenues of up to $300 million this financial year and has ambitions to nearly triple the number of its stores by 2027.

Ahmedabad: In a shocking revelation, a 25-year-old man, arrested for allegedly snatching a gold chain from a senior citizen in Ahmedabad's Ghatlodia area, is claimed to be the son of a former Madhya ...