He was a slave from Senegal who wrote in Arabic. Or was he an Arab prince? He was a scholar who memorized vast passages of the Qur’an and mastered numerous Islamic texts. Or were his writings ...

One day in 1855, a man walked into a newspaper office in Sydney, Australia, with an odd request. The man, later described as a “man of color” with “bright, intelligent eyes” and an American accent, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Kari Winter, PhD, a University at Buffalo professor of global gender and sexuality studies, is writing a screenplay for a four-part television miniseries that she hopes will bring the ...

A scholar raises questions, and hackles, with evidence that the ex-slave who wrote the definitive first-person account of the Middle Passage may not have made that infamous journey What if you were ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A distinguished group of scholars, filmmakers and artists will join many descendants of authors of slave narratives at the University at Buffalo for three days of community events, ...

Robert Falls, a former slave who lived out the last years of his life at a home on Broadway Avenue in Knoxville, put it bluntly to a writer collecting his story: “If I had my life to live over, I ...