EDITOR’S NOTE: In Snap, we look at the power of a single photograph, chronicling stories about how both modern and historical images have been made. Depicting a crisscross of welts and scars streaked ...

“There is no room for knowledge here,” the man in sunglasses says, swirling his glass of whiskey. “There is only room for power.” The scene is from the 2015 Tamil-language Malaysian indie movie Jagat ...

With the Fourth of July weekend approaching, we’ve selected 13 films — a nod to the original 13 colonies — that reflect America’s core ideals: courage, justice, resilience, and the ongoing struggle ...

The Impossible Missions Force takes on the absolute ruler of a Middle East nation who is running a secret slave market. Barney poses as a slave, part of an effort to construct a replica of the slave ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones has entered the Jillian Michaels chat with cold, hard facts. After Michaels grossly downplayed the scope of slavery in America during a recent television appearance, Hannah-Jones ...

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, including on X, Reddit and Facebook. As we previously reported, this claim ...

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...

Anne Arundel County held A Day of Acknowledgement: Confronting the Legacy of Slavery event, at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, which included an apology from County Executive Steuart Pittman ...