If you eat tomatoes in America between the months of December and May, chances are some were picked in Florida, where labor bosses have been indicted in recent years for forcing immigrants to work as ...
BLUFFTON — Bernard Bennett has not even opened the doors to his new restaurant and he has already been short-listed for a James Beard Award. In January, Bennett was named one of 20 semifinalists from ...
A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...
At least 12.5 million African people were trafficked to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, wreaking a profound economic impact on a number of states, including Connecticut, according ...
The transatlantic slave trade, carried out by Western powers for nearly four centuries, remains one of humanity's darkest chapters, leaving deep scars through the suffering, loss, and shattered lives ...
 On the poster of The Woman King, it said 'inspired by true events,' but how true is this? Fiction sometimes is too good to be true [BBC/Smithsonian] T Temi Iwalaiye Follow The Woman King was ...
Bronwen Everill received funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the Huntington Library for this research. Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone on the west African coast, was named for the freed slaves ...
Three centuries ago, an enslaved person in Virginia wrote to a leader of the Church of England, begging to be released from “this cruel bondage.” There was no reply from the church, which at the time ...
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