A Massachusetts school is embroiled in tension after students reportedly endured racist bullying in a "slave auction" on Snapchat, with the school's response drawing ire from some in the community.

SPRINGFIELD — Criminal charges will be filed against six middle schoolers attending Southwick Regional School that were involved in a mock slave auction that occurred in early February, after an ...

SOUTHWICK, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM/Gray News) - In most schools around the world, February is the month when you embrace and teach Black history. However, at a Massachusetts High School, some students took ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — If you’ve taken a trip to America’s Oldest City, you’ve most likely seen the Old Slave Market at the east end of the plaza. However, the realities of what happened there nearly ...

Harriet, a 21-year-old Black woman, was one of many people sold at auction near what is now Court Square Fountain in downtown Montgomery. Montgomery was a major hub for the slave trade, with numerous ...

Natchez was the largest slave-trading market in Mississippi before the Civil War, and one of the largest in the country. Today, the city is full of the former homes of plantation owners and their ...

He died in a pool of his own blood after being shot in the head by a former Confederate army captain named William Tolar who was part of a crowd that came after Beebe. His murder came one day after ...

Organizations have fought to uncover the histories of the cabins and preserve the properties as historic landmarks. “I’ve come across slave dwellings with many uses like rental spaces, she sheds, man ...

Although the importation of slaves was outlawed in 1807, the domestic slave trade remained a major economic establishment in America until the Civil War. Before its retrocession to Virginia, the city ...