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At a campaign event in New Hampshire Wednesday, the former S.C. governor didn't mention slavery as a cause of the Civil War, sparking controversy. Now she's walking back those comments.

In a lawsuit filed this week, a group of current and former Alabama prisoners say they have been coerced into providing cheap labor to the state and to private employers.

This episode of Focus: Black Oklahoma features stories on Oklahomans Against Occupation rallying for the ceasefire in Gaza, a court victory for Muscogee Freedmen and the legacy of The Gap Band.

As a Black TV critic who loves Westerns, Eric Deggans really wanted to like this show. But he found the first four episodes were focused on being a Modern Western Epic, at the expense of Reeves' story

Gun advertising sows seeds of mistrust and the promotes need to carry a gun for self-protection. But protection from whom?

"I make this apology myself. And I feel the weight of the words in my heart and my soul," King Willem-Alexander said at a ceremony marking 160 years since the end of slavery in the Netherlands.

"You don't hear about enslaved people at Mass or in Sunday school," says Rachel Swarns. Her new book tells the story of 272 enslaved people sold in 1838 to help save what is now Georgetown University.

California's reparations task force has voted to approve recommendations on how the state may compensate and apologize to Black residents for generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies.

Two members of U.K. aristocratic families, Laura Trevelyan and David Lascelles, are apologizing for centuries-old injustices in the Caribbean, and asking others to join them in paying reparations.

In the U.S., what does it mean when a white family and a Black family share a last name — and one of their ancestors is a pioneer of Black history? How Black and white Woodsons became one family.