Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it.

Amsterdam celebrates its 750th anniversary. For nearly that long, Netherlands’ capital and most populous city has avoided ...

OPRHP’s Black History webpage has been significantly updated with an interactive map highlighting parks and sites tied to New York’s history of slavery and liberation. The page also features stories ...

"Trace/s," the Brooklyn Public Library's newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy ...

Commissioner Jeanette Moy announced the 2025 Black History Month observance at the Empire State Plaza will feature exhibits and events celebrating African Americans' history, accomplishments, ...

New York City is renowned as a global center of finance, commerce and culture, but its role in slavery is far lesser known.   Although the slave trade is typically associated […] ...

"Trace/s: Family History Research and the Legacy of Slavery in Brooklyn" at the Center for Brooklyn History grapples with the ...

Many New Yorkers can cite chapter and verse about the African Burial Ground National Monument in downtown Manhattan near City Hall, but only a few know about the burial grounds and segregated ...

New York City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, are setting up commissions to study each city's role in slavery and to look into reparations. Reparations for slavery are proposed compensations aimed at the ...

One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...

On January 31st, 1961, a debate between Israel’s Ambassador to Canada, Yaakov Herzog, and the historian Arnold Toynbee, took ...

In honor of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the community came together Sunday afternoon to fill the Warren Ballrooms on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus with laughter, cheer and song. For the first ...