Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The alligator is what got me. “Emancipation,” Antoine Fuqua’s well-meaning and graphic depiction of an enslaved man who escapes in ...

All are welcome to join the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) and Museum of African American History Boston I Nantucket for a free performance to celebrate freedom and honor the progress for human rights ...

When the new year arrived at midnight on Jan. 1, 1863, the quiet of most of the region’s small towns and rural expanses might well have been briefly disturbed by church bells ringing out. But there’s ...

John William Templeton, an African American historian from California, has been researching abolitionism and Abraham Lincoln and has come to know almost everything there is to know about the ...

Stacker describes the events after the Emancipation Proclamation leading to the full abolition of slavery, using records, academic commentary, and reports. - VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images Stacker ...