More than a million people live in conditions of modern slavery in the United States today, according to the Global Slavery ...

More than a million people live in conditions of modern slavery in the United States today, according to the Global Slavery ...

The Belair Mansion in Bowie, Maryland, was the site of the Belair Plantation, a horse farm entirely dependent on generations of slave labor from 1745 until the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

A small Black community in Anne Arundel County goes back to the 18th century. Wilsontown, in Odenton, was where Quakers and ...

Trump administration appeals Maryland judge's ruling blocking birthright citizenship order - President Donald Trump's ...

Bowie State University, Maryland's oldest Historically Black College and University, got its start in Baltimore.

By 1640, the Virginia courts had sentenced at least one black servant to slavery . . . Three servants working for a farmer named Hugh Gwyn ran away to Maryland. Two were white; one was black.

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Viterbo University's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion division is inviting the community to celebrate Black History Month ...

The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" was born in February of 1818 on Maryland's eastern shore. He spent his early years with his grandparents ...

Linda Dorsey-Walker is a walking museum of Black history. It all started with a quest to know more about her family history.

Leading them was Edward Gorsuch, 56, a Maryland slave owner. Two years earlier, four of Gorsuch’s slaves had run away. Gorsuch always believed “my boys” would return voluntarily. When they ...