Drake and SZA surprised the world last week when they announced their first-ever collaboration “Slime You Out.” While the track’s release came with much excitement, a specific 6 God line now has him ...

Fans are unhappy with Drake after many pointed out a line referencing American slavery in his new song. “Slime You Out” is the rapper’s latest single from his upcoming album, For All the Dogs. The ...

Slavery existed across both ancient and modern worlds, but the rules, the violence, and the purpose behind it changed dramatically. In Rome, it was everywhere! In the bathhouses, the military, even ...

Abraham Lincoln demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that our Founding Fathers believed slavery was a moral wrong.

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In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, including on X, Reddit and Facebook. As we previously reported, this claim ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., defended the state's new African-American history curriculum that has sparked controversy in an NBC Nightly News interview. Critics of Florida's new curriculum focused on ...

In the past couple of decades, scholars have emphasized the sheer brutality of life under slavery and how that brutality stemmed directly from the fact that slavery was, above all, a business. From ...

"Like Adam, we are all apt to shift off the blame from ourselves and lay it upon others, how justly in our case you may judge. The Negroes are enslaved by the Negroes themselves before they are ...