slavery

What would you do for your freedom?

In a frank new memoir, the author and journalist reckons with a family legacy of slave ownership, and a life of white privelege.

We’ll go On the Record with the director and the historian behind a film that tells the story of the enslaved couple Mary and Daniel Bell, who fought in court for their family’s freedom, were thwarted, saw their children sold south, and were at last connected again.

The Pulitzer prize-winning author explores the meaning of Juneteenth to her own family and to generations of African Americans.

We’ll go On the Record with the Washington Post reporter who traced how many slaveholders served in Congress over decades, and with a Johns Hopkins museum curator and a scholar to discuss why it’s important to study and honor those who were enslaved at the Homewood estate.

We’ll go On the Record with the Washington Post reporter who traced how many slaveholders served in Congress over decades, and with a Johns Hopkins museum curator and a scholar who tell why it’s important to study and honor those who were enslaved at the Homewood estate.

We’re getting close to 400 years since white settlers set foot on Maryland. Most of the early colonists were indentured servants--through their labor they…

There’s a room hidden behind a curtain at the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center and Bookstore that houses shackles and hand-written slave…

Historian Anthony Cohen brings the ‘living history’ model to the Underground Railroad; and novelist Robert Stucky talks about A Complicated Legacy, the…