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Enjoy the beach at historic Virginia Key Beach Park PHOTO COURTESY OF MIAMIANDBEACHES.COM On Sunday, June 15, 2025, from 5:30 to 8:30 am, Miami’s decades-long ...
A mutual insurance company is one wholly owned by its policyholders. Consider it self-funding as opposed to being dependent ...
On July 16 on Paris Hill, internationally acclaimed storyteller Antonio Rocha will present the story of Pedro Tovookan Parris ...
a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship ...
A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown, a community near Mobile founded by Africans illegally transported to Alabama aboard the slave ship. Some of their descendants ...
The American Civil War ended 160 years ago with the Union victorious and slavery abolished. But many Bristolians supported ...
There is a list of other possible name changes of ships named after prominent women and civil rights leaders, a U.S. official ...
U.S. Navy is renaming a ship named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk and considering new names for others named for prominent ...
The Navy will rename the USNS Harvey Milk, sparking backlash from California leaders during Pride Month as the Pentagon rolls ...
New research has indicated that two ships found in Costa Rica, once thought by archaeologists to be pirate ships, were ...
African kingdoms actively participated in and profited from the slave trade.Barbary pirates enslaved over a million Europeans in Mediterranean raids.
David Blight, a professor of history and African American studies at Yale, has called the Charleston commemoration the first ...