A former employee at prominent San Francisco tech startup Tradeshift has filed a lawsuit against the company, its former CEO and several board members and investors, alleging that she was subject to a ...

Ruthie Browning dove into the calm, blue water off Key West, Florida, expecting to see “a big, old rock with stuff growing ...

Accuser Chirayu Rana gave an interview about his life and the lawsuit before allegedly blocking the reporter’s number.

France’s National Assembly has voted unanimously to repeal the Code Noir, the 1685 royal decree that regulated slavery across the French colonial empire. Although slavery was abolished permanently in ...

Slavery was neither central to America’s founding nor the primary source of the country’s subsequent prosperity. Yet both ...

Craven boarded the Uncas, where he discovered iron “grating for the hatches” that was typical for illegal slavers. Craven learned as well that although the Uncas as he found it carried only ballast, ...

'It is a story that involves the juxtaposition of profit and power versus the human cost.' The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will display the largest and most ...

Between 1500 and 1866, slave traders forced 12.5 million Africans aboard transatlantic slave vessels. Before 1820, four enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic for every European, making Africa the ...

NEW ORLEANS – Thousands of tourists stream into the French Quarter each year through beautiful Esplanade Avenue, an oak tree-studded stretch known for its Creole cottages. The tremendous trees are a ...