7+ hour, 38+ min ago   (367+ words) NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church.Beginning around 1825, Adams became one of the key Underground Railroad conductors in Champaign County He sheltered freedom seekers at his home in Urbana and later at his farm in Concord Township…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (110+ words) Britain and America. One Story, Two Nations. 2026 marks the 250 anniversary of the signing of a document that changed the world: The US Declaration of Independence. They are recognising this momentous period in British American history with a powerful free exhibition…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1084+ words) WILLIAMSBURG – Visitors who attended Jamestown Rediscovery’s First Africans Commemoration on Saturday heard the stories of two Africans who lived in Jamestown but whose histories were preserved in very different ways. Historic interpreters Valarie Gray Holmes and Stephen Seals brought those…...

13+ hour, 40+ min ago   (725+ words) “I think that there’s a strategy to divide and conquer and to create a very contrived confusion,” said Samuel Okuzeto Ablakwan, Ghana’s foreign minster. “We denounce and totally reject those claims that Africans are as guilty and complicit as those…...

14+ hour, 32+ min ago   (1364+ words) Edward Colston gave millions in today's money to schools, almshouses and charitable causes, carefully crafting an image of himself as a Christian benefactor. But his wealth was bound up with the trafficking of enslaved Africans. Could he ever see that…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (664+ words) On August 23, 1791, enslaved people in Saint-Domingue began an insurrection against the most profitable slave colony in the world. Within thirteen years, they had defeated the forces of France, Britain and Spain, abolished slavery, and established Haiti: the first independent Black…...

14+ hour, 13+ min ago   (291+ words) The document was written by Peter Miller Watson, who managed Sandbach Tinne’s interests in Demerara. It refers to the vessel Parker from the company’s fleet. According to the letter, there were 115 adult men, 86 adult women, 82 children under the age of…...

1+ day, 21+ min ago   (410+ words) Hampton kicked off African Landing Commemoration Week on Saturday with a celebration at the Convention Center honoring the arrival of the first recorded Africans in English North America in 1619. The event marks the landing of the White Lion — the first…...

23+ hour, 10+ min ago   (62+ words) The very 1st {first} Race Card being played, in October 18th, 1862, against Abraham Lincoln If you enjoy using FR and agree it's a worthwhile endeavor, please consider making a contribution today: Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA…...

1+ day, 10+ min ago   (304+ words) HAMPTON, Va. — Hampton kicked off African Landing Commemoration Week on Saturday with a celebration at the Convention Center honoring the arrival of the first recorded Africans in English North America in 1619. The event marks the landing of the White Lion…...