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

Trump spent that month abolishing decades of diversity efforts throughout the federal government and beyond, removing many ...

(dramatic music) - [Narrator] From its earliest days, slavery was woven into the fabric of America. Beginning on an August morning in 1619 ... was brought to a tobacco farm in Northern Virginia.

Donald Ray Lantz and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather adopted the children, ages 5 to 16, and brought the family to West Virginia in May ... Matthew Dingess for the first day of trial on January 14 ...

Hours after the Senate approved a spending framework, President Donald Trump said in a Fox News interview that he’s open to ...

For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.

But tragedy struck around 1619 when they were “kidnapped and forcibly sailed across the ocean aboard three slave ... in Virginia.” We know this because Anthony and Isabella were first ...

John Lewis participated in the first mass ... creator of The 1619 Project, which was published by The New York Times and retells U.S. history using a framework that places slavery, its ...

With the increased attention on race relations and equality brought ... of Virginia, Columbia, and Princeton, were built by enslaved workers and partially funded by the slave trade.

From Air Jordans to the high-five, Black athletes have driven popular culture for decades. The mannerisms, clothes and ...

The story of tobacco in colonial Virginia represents one of the earliest and most significant cases of biopiracy in North American history. When English settlers first arrived ... but it also brought ...