Statue of Burns in Dumfries town centre, unveiled in 1882. David J Black reminds us just how famous Burns was. See part one ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

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

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

Whether the Academy Awards are actually the world's most prestigious award in cinema is up for debate. Since 1929, the ...

Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor.” The Association for the Study of African American Life and ...

Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...

The exhibition traces the work of the Singaporean-British artist Kim Lim (1936–97) in a contemporary and associative exploration and places her oeuvre ...