News of the discoveries comes amid the opening of the Williamsburg Bray School building, which educated hundreds of free and ...

The Bray School opened in 1760 and was North America’s first institution to educate both enslaved and free Black children. However, the Bray School’s underlying goals offer a stark example of the ...

Take away its legal sanction and subsidy, and the institution’s entire economic edifice crumbles.

When he was growing up in Marion, Arthur “Scrapper” Broady knew one of his cousins as Uncle Jim. An eccentric artist who ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

Henneberger and Mastio debate DEI and diversity after the firing of National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet.

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery. Traditions EndurePainted in the ...

Those who reached Luanda were branded and jammed into pens until there was room for them on one of 36 slave ships that left in 1619 for the New World, carrying a total of about 15,000 enslaved people.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Jamestown Settlement will honor the legacy of the first recorded Africans brought to Virginia in 1619 with special programming that reflects on history through an African American ...

Creator of the 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones, 45, stirred up controversy on Twitter Monday when she claimed in a since-deleted tweet that 'tipping is a legacy of slavery.' ...

A plaque in the Hampton Roads area reads that the first documented Africans in Virginia arrived in the Hampton Roads area in Aug. 1619 on the White Lion, an English privateer based in the Netherlands.