The "Master of Me" author recounted Smith sending her a voicemail of encouragement during a rough patch with her family.

This volume of Freedom presents a documentary record of the transformation of the Civil War into a war against slavery, and the slaves' role in their own emancipation. The Destruction of Slavery shows ...

Keke Palmer’s film debut came at the young age of ten in Barbershop 2, but her career blew up when she was 12 playing the ...

The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared ...

Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Manisha ...

Indian storytellers Leena Yadav, Sutapa Sikdar, Atika Chohan, Anupama Chopra, and Sandhya Mridul shed light on the impact of ...

One hundred and sixty years ago this month, U.S. General William T. Sherman launched his famous March to the Sea, a 250-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah that crushed the Confederacy and helped end ...

Keke Palmer shares the surprising voicemail she received from Will Smith when she considered emancipating herself from her ...