A new downtown Washington exhibit, inspired by the 1619 Project, explores slavery’s legacy and impact through art.

The Trump administration took down the slavery exhibit at Independence National Historical Park. The erasure of our shared ...

A series of informational signs about slavery was removed Thursday from the President's House historical site in Philadelphia ...

Philadelphia sued the Trump administration after it directed the Park Service to rip out a memorial to slavery. Elsewhere, ...

In January 2026, the National Park Service removed the slavery exhibition at the President’s House site in Philadelphia, PA ...

Outraged critics are accusing President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” after the National Park Service removed an ...

In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one that involved a horseback ride under the cover of darkness, abolitionists ...

PHILADELPHIA — For some, the removal of exhibits about slavery at the President’s House Site at Independence National ...

The exhibit at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia explored George Washington's involvement in slavery ...

It's estimated that over 11 million Africans were enslaved, with more than 1 million dying during the brutal transatlantic voyage to the New World. Once slaves were captured throughout the continent, ...

Langston Hughes, my favorite writer, wrote a poem in 1926, when he was 25 years old. It declared, with a mix of substantial sadness and delicate defiance, "I, too, am America." Born in the long ...