As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

The article discusses the ongoing issue of slavery in Texas, the rescinding of asylum protection for people of color, and the need for young Progressives to fight for democracy and the Constitution.

Fire danger across much of the Northwest Territories will be high or extreme over the Indigenous People's Day long weekend, ...

With a last name like Feldkamp, I fully expected my DNA results from 23andMe to confirm what I thought I already knew. My ...

With a last name like Feldkamp, I fully expected my DNA results from 23andMe to confirm what I thought I already knew. My ancestry is predominantly German. But it turns out that no, it isn’t. I’m ...

As the nation continues to celebrate Juneteenth—commemorating June 19, 1865, when federal troops enforced the Emancipation ...

John Gibbons, minister emeritus of First Parish Unitarian Universalist in Bedford, is featured an upcoming restitution ...

Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from ...

A recent Columbia resident shares some family history, and a celebration committee member shares why Juneteenth is important.

While the 4th of July marked the independence of some during the early stages of the country’s history, many were excluded ...

Slavery wasn’t limited to the American South. In the late 1730s, a young boy in Guinea was kidnapped and taken on a slave ship to New England. He grew up as an enslaved person but went on to buy his ...

Jessica Stoya: I wish instead of using the word “unsightly,” Robert had said, “aesthetically off-putting to me.” ...