The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing the Code Noir, or Black Code, the ...

Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. In a ruling that is notably silent on Louisiana’s history of slavery and white ...

Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon ...

The controversial PC game Plantation Simulator, which at one point featured Black characters being whipped by players, has ...

It’s where the British perfected their system of enslaved labor, George Washington visited and colonialism’s legacy can still ...

In May 2025, François Bayrou, then the prime minister of France, fielded an unusual question from a member of Parliament: Why hadn’t France formally revoked the Code Noir, the ...

The Mt. Zion Baptist Church congregation invites the community to celebrate the official Texas Historical Marker dedication ...

The whitewashing of American history continues with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ alternative to AP U.S. History courses. While claiming ...

Freedman’s State Park in Brookeville honors the property's former owner, Enoch George Howard, who bought freedom for himself ...

The fight over Black political power in the South continues to unfold across states haunted by slavery, segregation and ...

For years, a story that slaves' cornrows hid maps and messages to facilitate their escapes to freedom spread online as the stuff of internet legend. The idealistic story, indicative of the very real ...