The nation's first abolitionist newspaper is being revived after its inception nearly 200 years ago, and it has pledged to be a place for conversation on a number of racial justice issues, including ...

Nestled on what could be mistaken for just an ordinary, unassuming street corner in Downtown Brooklyn, stands a brick building responsible for helping an unknown number of enslaved people in their ...

Black History Month has always been about abolition for me. I may not have known the word abolition as a young girl, but I understood abolition in my spirit. At my core, I witnessed a community ...

The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously on Tuesday to grant landmark status to the Downtown Brooklyn house where prominent abolitionists Harriet and Thomas Truesdell lived ...

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) – Jonesborough is home to the first publication dedicated to the abolitionist movement named “The Emancipator.” It called for the freeing of slaves decades before the ...

After 200 years, the nation’s first abolitionist newspaper is returning–and it couldn’t have come back at a better time. In an unfortunate way, what is old often becomes new again when considering the ...

Johns Hopkins, the founder of the Baltimore research university and hospital who was was long believed to be a staunch and early abolitionist, owned slaves, the institution announced Wednesday. Census ...

As the Civil War raged in America, a group of slave catchers caught up with Leroy Lee, who had fled slavery to Cincinnati. They took him east to New Richmond, intending to ship him back to his ...

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Hannah Kliger joined the CBS News New York team as a reporter in May 2022, focusing her coverage in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Hannah has received several awards for her investigative journalism ...