In the everlasting faceoff between Black history and America’s self-conception, it’s worth revisiting one of the fight’s earliest and most valiant weapons of war: the slave memoir. Narratives by ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., defended the state's new African-American history curriculum that has sparked controversy in an NBC Nightly News interview. Critics of Florida's new curriculum focused on ...

Lee Hawkins on honoring the past of slavery by rethinking the present. Former Wall Street Journal reporter Lee Hawkins' memoir, "I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free," ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read through a ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - According to a recent study, 37% of the Columbus population was enslaved by 1860. The history behind slavery is a very dark history, from being chained, whipped, raped, and ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Then-Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz and Gov. Ron DeSantis oversaw the ...