Nation Mar 27 New York's newly identified Underground Railroad passage is under threat By Terry Tang, Joseph B. Frederick, Associated Press
World Mar 25 UN calls for reparations to remedy the historical wrongs of trafficking enslaved Africans The U.N. General Assembly's resolution also urges “the prompt and unhindered restitution” of cultural items to their countries of origin without charge. By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press
Arts Mar 12 AP report: Slave ship artifact will soon leave the Smithsonian to return to its South African home A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, when a remnant from one of the first sunken slave ships… By Gary Fields, River Zhang, Jacquelyn Martin, Associated Press
Politics Feb 19 Slavery exhibit returns to Philadelphia's Independence Mall after Trump administration ordered its removal Workers on Thursday began restoring an exhibit on the lives of the nine people once enslaved at the former President's House in Philadelphia amid a contentious legal fight between the city and the Trump administration. By Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press
Politics Jan 23 Philadelphia sues Trump administration over removal of slavery exhibit from public park Outraged critics accused President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” on Friday after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park in response to his executive order “restoring truth and sanity to American history”… By Tassanee Vejpongsa, Graham Lee Brewer, Associated Press
May 28 Harvard ends legal battle over early photos of enslaved people, agrees to relinquish images By Leah Willingham, Associated Press A lawyer says the images will be transferred to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history with a woman who says she is one of the subjects' descendants. Continue reading
Mar 26 Descendants of people enslaved by St. Louis University say they cannot participate in formal apology By Gabrielle Hays St. Louis University was set to apologize for enslaving people. Hours before the ceremony, a group of descendants of Black people the school owned and traded backed out, citing concerns that the yearslong reconciliation process ultimately felt too symbolic. Continue reading
Feb 25 A Black community in Louisiana was eligible for historic landmark designation. The National Park Service withdrew it from consideration By Jack Brook, Associated Press The agency withdrew the 11-mile stretch of land known as Great River Road from consideration for National Historic Landmark designation at the request of state officials, who celebrated the move as a win for economic development. Continue reading
Oct 25 As Britain's former colonies ask for slavery reparations, King Charles says past can't be changed By Charlotte Graham-McLay, Associated Press King Charles III has told a summit of Commonwealth countries in Samoa that the past could not be changed as he indirectly acknowledged calls from some of Britain's former colonies for a reckoning over its role in the trans-Atlantic slave… Continue reading
Dec 28 Presidential candidate Nikki Haley left out slavery when asked what caused the Civil War. Then she backtracked By Meg Kinnard, Associated Press Haley was asked Wednesday at a town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, what she believed had caused the war. Continue reading