The United Nations officially declared the transatlantic African slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity.” ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Civil Rights icon Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and renowned journalist Stacy M. Brown collaborated on the groundbreaking book The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500 ...

We abstained from that resolution because we refuse to create a hierarchy among crimes against humanity or to make a ...

The resolution passed by United Nations General Assembly on 25 March 2026 seeking recognition of the transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” potentially creates a broader ...

"The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most ...

Washington, D.C. – Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., a lifelong civil rights leader and president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), has released “The Transatlantic Slave Trade ...

France recently angered countries from the Global South when it abstained from a United Nations resolution vote on the ...

Identifying the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity situates its history within international law ...

The story of the transatlantic slave trade is often told in ways that feel deceptively simple—reduced to slogans, moral shortcuts, and phrases like “they sold us.” But history rarely conforms to such ...

The question of slavery’s future figured prominently when the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Some delegates from Northern states hoped to banish the practice.