As Juneteenth 2025 approaches, Houston and Galveston are holding events, a parade and festivals to mark the historic holiday.

A celebration of MAAFA, Kiswahili for “great tragedy,” referring to the period called the Middle Passage or TransAtlantic Slave Trade, will take place July 5, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m., starting at ...

But a conventional history of the girls’ experience was impossible. As she noted, “There is not one extant autobiographical narrative of a female captive who survived the Middle Passage.” ...

The series of eight panels pay homage to West African people who were uprooted from their families and forced to endure the brutality of the Middle Passage and enslavement. The shape of each panel ...

While ships like the Mayflower, Titanic, and Santa Maria are commonly remembered, few can name even one of the estimated 12,000 vessels that carried enslaved Africans across the Middle Passage ...

Institute/NEH Postdoctoral Fellow Allison Bigelow describes her class' involvement in the 1619 and the Making of America Conference Throughout the seventeenth-century Atlantic world, imaginative ...

Colorful children's picture books, gripping historical fiction and more are on our must-read list this Juneteenth ...

(Photo by Bret Woodard) Bret Woodard In another, hands reach up toward two men in a boat, seemingly invoking, perhaps, those lost during the Middle Passage.

Resources offered following passage of no camping ordinance Donald Trump gives Republicans ultimatum over PBS, NPR funding ...

The Powerful Objects From the Collections of the Smithsonian’s Newest Museum These artifacts each tell a part of the African-American story ...

The “big, beautiful bill” passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump last week has been criticized for ...