African and Caribbean nations have outlined a plan for reparatory justice as they demand apologies from countries that participated in the transatlantic slave trade.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Civil Rights icon Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and renowned journalist Stacy M. Brown collaborated on the groundbreaking book The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500 ...

Heritage Senior Advisor and Research Fellow Allen Mendenhall has urged Americans to be proud of their country’s role in ...

A new art exhibition exploring Orkney's historical connections to the transatlantic slave trade has gone on display in Orkney ...

The leaders have asked for apologies from the countries that benefited from the slave trade, as well as debt relief and financial compensation.

"The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most ...

Washington, D.C. – Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., a lifelong civil rights leader and president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), has released “The Transatlantic Slave Trade ...

At a “high-level United Nations consultative conference” in Ghana earlier this month, African and Caribbean countries called ...

Americans are commemorating Juneteenth months after a UN resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity.

The question of slavery’s future figured prominently when the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Some delegates from Northern states hoped to banish the practice.