by October Gallery
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke acknowledged Sunday that his ancestors, as well as his wife Amy’s, had owned slaves. O’Rourke wrote in a post on Medium that his paternal great-great-great…
Say this about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: He’s consistent, especially when he has a chance to sneak in a dig at former President Barack Obama. That’s what the Kentucky…
Instead of celebrating Thomas Jefferson’s birthday as an official city holiday, Charlottesville, Virginia, will hold a day of recognition and remembrance for the emancipation of enslaved Black people. The city…
Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday for his claim that it didn’t make sense to pay reparations for something that occurred more than…
People on Twitter are celebrating and reflecting on Juneteenth, a day of remembrance that marks the official end of chattel slavery in America. On June 19, 1865, Union Gen. Gordon…
Twitter users schooled Donald Trump Jr. after he agreed that his father, President Donald Trump, had been treated worse than any other person in the history of America. Trump Jr.…
A private school in Weschester County, New York, was investigated by the state attorney general’s office amid allegations a teacher conducted a mock slave auction with black students. New York…
Ancestry.com responded to backlash Thursday by pulling an ad that romanticizes race relations during the Civil War era. The ad, released earlier this month, is titled “Inseparable” and is set…
Students at Georgetown University have voted overwhelmingly to create a fund to provide reparations to descendants of 272 slaves sold to fund the school in the 19th century, a major…
Harvard University has “shamelessly” turned a profit from photos of two 19th-century slaves while ignoring requests to turn the photos over to the slaves’ descendants, according to a lawsuit filed…