As Juneteenth 2025 approaches, Houston and Galveston are holding events, a parade and festivals to mark the historic holiday.

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A celebration of MAAFA, Kiswahili for “great tragedy,” referring to the period called the Middle Passage or TransAtlantic Slave Trade, will take place July 5, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m., starting at ...

But a conventional history of the girls’ experience was impossible. As she noted, “There is not one extant autobiographical narrative of a female captive who survived the Middle Passage.” ...

Institute/NEH Postdoctoral Fellow Allison Bigelow describes her class' involvement in the 1619 and the Making of America Conference Throughout the seventeenth-century Atlantic world, imaginative ...

While ships like the Mayflower, Titanic, and Santa Maria are commonly remembered, few can name even one of the estimated 12,000 vessels that carried enslaved Africans across the Middle Passage ...

Colorful children's picture books, gripping historical fiction and more are on our must-read list this Juneteenth ...

The “big, beautiful bill” passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump last week has been criticized for ...

Many Americans received an email from the Social Security Administration applauding the megabill's passage. Experts say it ...

(Photo by Bret Woodard) Bret Woodard In another, hands reach up toward two men in a boat, seemingly invoking, perhaps, those lost during the Middle Passage.

The Powerful Objects From the Collections of the Smithsonian’s Newest Museum These artifacts each tell a part of the African-American story ...

For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past ...