Comparing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to American slave patrols starts with a core understanding of their ...

On the way down I saw nothing. The water was a blur of teal fringed with rusty shadows, darkening, about twenty feet below, to a sickly emerald. I followed a rope strung between a buoy and a stake in ...

The following script is from "The Slave Ship" which aired on November 1, 2015. Scott Pelley is the correspondent. Nicole Young, producer. Two hundred years ago, a ship named for St. Joseph, sank in a ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is ...

A common argument in the dispute over official displays of the Confederate battle flag is that most people misunderstand the reasons behind the Civil War. It was not about slavery, these advocates say ...

In "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon & Schuster), author Ilyon Woo recounts a remarkable 19th century story of deception, in which a fair-skinned enslaved ...

Sexual liaisons between mixed-race couples during the slavery era form the centerpiece of 'Slave Play,' a provocative world-premiere satirical work from award-winning young playwright Jeremy O. Harris ...

We often talk about slavery as if it was a thing of the past–a horror from another era, perpetrated by people who have no resemblance to us. But the truth is that slave labor is still alive and well.