The John Hay Library is displaying a pair of slave shackles, on loan from the International Slavery Museum, in a glass case at the entrance of the first-floor reading room. The iron shackles are a ...

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The CEO of a Louisville museum is calling the attention they’re receiving “hits of compassion” after a video showing a woman having slave shackles put on her gained millions ...

MIDDLETOWN - Over the summer, as he scoured historic Marlpit Hall, Joe Zemla was sifting through a 25-year-old box of stuff labeled “miscellaneous metal” when he came across something stunning. There ...

Museum of London Archaeology researchers have identified the remains of a shackled slave in Britain during the Roman Empire, providing "unquestionable" evidence of "the role slavery has played ...

The Rutland Area NAACP wrote a letter to the Vermont State Fairgrounds’ board of trustees criticizing the organization for permitting the sale of what appeared to be slave shackles. Photo courtesy of ...

With the debates raging on critical race theory, the 1619 Project and the recent dismantling of Confederate memorials, we continue to grapple as a nation with how to remember our history. As a Black ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Students may not remember all the dates talked about in history teacher Mary Bolhuis' class at ...

It's an unassuming, small museum in Germantown. Just two rooms packed with powerful artifacts that reflect the extremely painful history of slavery in America. This is the Lest We Forget Museum of ...

Deep in the territory of the old Confederacy, a new glass and stone edifice will soon begin rising — the first national museum in the United States devoted to the subject of black slavery. Builders ...