Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s failure to identify slavery as the primary cause of the Civil War has created a firestorm. But the press is missing an important issue when reporting on ...

Artist Marcus Brown’s “Slavery Trails” sculptures don’t exist in the real world. But if you stand beneath the oaks on Esplanade Avenue on the edge of the French Quarter and activate your iPhone with a ...

I'm a white guy. And a descendent of slaves. I can say that because, according to one dictionary definition, "slaves" refers to "the widespread enslavement of captured Slavs in the early Middle Ages." ...

What do Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, jazz and the middle passage all have in common? Scholar and author Imani Perry explains — it's the color blue. In her new book, Black in Blues: How a Color ...