Slavery

David Jon Walker is the eye behind the fabrics, printings and typography of the New Haven Museum’s newest exhibit on slavery in New Haven and Yale. He shares how his experience as a Yale student and his long African-American history lineage informed his work.

The exhibit, which is free to all visitors and hosted by Yale University at the New Haven Museum, explores how slavery and resistance to it have shaped both Yale and New Haven.

A Connecticut woman who said she's descended from slaves shown in widely-published, historical photos owned by Harvard, can sue the Ivy League university for emotional distress.

James Lindsey Smith, a man enslaved in Virginia’s Northern Neck region on the Chesapeake Bay, made his way to freedom 184 years ago — and eventually to Norwich, Connecticut. Inspired by that journey and Smith’s determination, a group of men from the Castle Hill Church in Norwich attempted to retrace his steps back.

The inaugural class of eight high school students, who are residents of either Long Island, Brooklyn or Queens, were each awarded $10,000.

Juneteenth celebrates the day in 1865 when enslaved people were finally freed in Texas, the last state in the nation to comply with the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Lincoln two years earlier.

The $5,000 per semester scholarship is open to Black, African American or Caribbean American descendants of enslaved people.

Students at Stony Brook University on Long Island look at the history, and ramifications, of slavery on Long Island through this podcast.

The town of Manchester, Connecticut, has made Juneteenth an official town holiday.Juneteenth is meant to commemorate the day in 1865 that the last…

The arrival of the first enslaved people in Suffolk County in 1654 marks only the beginning of a long, often intentionally ignored, chapter in Long Island…