He was a slave from Senegal who wrote in Arabic. Or was he an Arab prince? He was a scholar who memorized vast passages of the Qur’an and mastered numerous Islamic texts. Or were his writings ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Kari Winter, PhD, a University at Buffalo professor of global gender and sexuality studies, is writing a screenplay for a four-part television miniseries that she hopes will bring the ...

In the past we have advised you to take advantage of holiday gatherings and the summer-reunion season to collect information from your relatives about family history. Get your kin talking, pull out a ...

A scholar raises questions, and hackles, with evidence that the ex-slave who wrote the definitive first-person account of the Middle Passage may not have made that infamous journey What if you were ...

Robert Falls, a former slave who lived out the last years of his life at a home on Broadway Avenue in Knoxville, put it bluntly to a writer collecting his story: “If I had my life to live over, I ...