MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony. Attendees, many of them ...

Descendants of slaves sold by Jesuits to raise money for Georgetown University 188 years ago are calling on the institution and the religious order to establish a $1 billion foundation to promote ...

The Muscogee Nation has been ordered by its highest court to recognize descendants of the tribe's former slaves as tribal citizens. The Muscogee (Creek) Nation Supreme Court agreed with two Freedmen ...

Georgetown University will give preference in admissions to the descendants of slaves owned by the Maryland Jesuits as part of its effort to atone for profiting from the sale of enslaved people, the ...

They gathered Saturday on the banks of the Mobile River to commemorate an utterly bleak moment, as their ancestors were delivered into slavery. They did not gather to mourn. They gathered to celebrate ...

Georgetown University students have approved a nonbinding referendum that calls for each undergraduate student to pay a fee that would benefit the descendants of 272 slaves whom the university sold in ...

It troubles Serge Alain Niang'O that many of his fellow Ivorians know more about the famous descendants of African slaves ...

Descendants of enslaved Africans from Ghana return to their ancestral home] Northern Ghana was historically a center for the trade of human lives: captives from northern communities like Nok, now part ...

SUGAR LAND, Texas (KTRK) -- Some protesters are calling for the bodies of 95 African-Americans found at a Fort Bend ISD construction site to be DNA tested. Half a dozen demonstrators yelled, "Test the ...

NORWICH, Conn. — The two slaves, a father and daughter, were stripped to the waist and positioned for frontal and side views. Then, like subjects in contemporary mug shots, their pictures were taken, ...