During Black History Month, Rochester residents have a significant reason to celebrate. The city is recognized as one of the five key U.S. cities central to the abolition movement, alongside Boston, ...

A historic church at the heart of Britain’s slavery abolition movement is facing a financial crisis after the Government ...

As people across the country experience these issues, which affect everyone in different ways, it’s important that we learn ...

As we commemorate Black History Month, we spotlight Henry Highland Garnet, a distinguished abolitionist, minister, educator ...

The Cozad-Bates house was not a stop on the Underground Railroad — it was a training ground for abolitionists.

A Singapore court has stayed the execution of a Malaysian prisoner for the second time just hours before he was due to be ...

The rolling hills and serene lakes of upstate New York's Finger Lakes region hold stories as powerful as the landscape is ...

The play takes place on the morning of July 5, 1857, nine years after the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls.

For abortion opponents, then, the idea of personhood was always the moon shot: the long-term goal that mobilized activists ...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been formally charged for an alleged plot to stage a coup and try to poison his ...

In what feels like the dwindling hours of this democracy, I’m painfully aware of the erosion of civil rights gains.