Greg Jenner is joined in 19th-Century America by Dr Michell Chresfield and comedian Desiree Burch to learn all about abolitionist and suffragist Sojourner Truth.

Century America to learn about Sojourner Truth. Read more. More episodes. Programme Website ...

The Dallas troupe is producing Jarrett King’s drama about Henry Brown, who escaped enslavement in Virginia to become a famous ...

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Crenshaw, a veteran park ranger, was named the director of the Maryland Park Service – becoming the first Black woman to hold ...

Wilson's plans may be shut down, since federal law bans any living person's image from being shown on U.S. currency.

His father recognized one catcher and fled, leaping 20 feet from a bedroom window, according to an account from Garnet's friend, abolitionist Alexander Crummell. His mother escaped to a nearby ...

The billboard, much like the work itself, is confrontational in its stillness. It asks observers to unlearn. To unlearn the ...

Bernoon is buried in North Burial Ground in Providence with his gravestone in “rough shape” and his story known by only a few ...

People shouldn’t have to go to prison to get their basic needs met. Abolitionist Feminism invites us to consider the world we want, and how to organise to build it. Seeking a world beyond prisons, ...

With abortion policy left to the states, far-right GOP lawmakers in nearly a dozen ultraconservative states — already with ...

The Cozad-Bates house was not a stop on the Underground Railroad — it was a training ground for abolitionists.