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

Cudjo Lewis became a literary sensation last year when he was declared ‘the last slave’. But now a British academic says that epithet belongs to Redoshi, a woman who was the subject of an ...

Cudjo has had to endure the jokes and mispronunciation of his surname for a long time. “Since seventh grade,” he said. “It’s pronounced CUH-joe, but everybody calls me COO-joe.

In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship.

Cudjo arrived in America without even the shirt on his back. Yet he and his fellow former slaves worked together to buy land, to build themselves a church, a school, a community.

Tuesday night William Cudjo and his wife were at home eating dinner as the storm rolled in. “I told her the weather's coming in we can tell by the blowing of the wind and trees and stuff ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s classic about Cudjo Lewis: on the middle-grade list for the week ended Jan. 27. By The New York Times PUBLISHED: February 12, 2024 at 10:43 AM EST ...

Kossula, whose enslaver called him Cudjo Lewis, was among them. The survivors asked Timothy Meaher to help return them to Africa, but he refused, Kossula said in an interview in 1914.

Cudjo, like Johnson, just might end up playing his way onto the 53-man roster. He had a nice game Thursday against the New York Jets, when he recovered a fumble and had a tackle for loss, and he ...

A descendent of Cudjo Lewis and a descendant of the Clotilda ’s captain meet, shake hands, and later take a boat out to the wreck together, each of them seeing it for the first time.

In “Barracoon,” Cudjo recounts the story of the Clotilda. It is often said that in the run-up to the Civil War a wealthy businessman named Timothy Meaher made a bet that he could bring a ship ...