Mickey Love, Executive Director, Historic London Town and Garden, welcomes guests. Historic London Town and Gardens hosted its Middle Passage Port Marker Ceremony in remembrance of ancestors, ...

There are school field trips. And then there are school field trips! The one on Tybee on Oct. 18 in front of the lighthouse was one for the record books. One that the 110 or so students from Tybee ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - On Saturday, a special ceremony was held in Biloxi to honor the first arrival of enslaved Africans who arrived on the Gulf Coast and died along the Middle Passage. Local leaders ...

For weeks, months, sometimes as long as a year, they waited in the dungeons of the slave factories scattered along Africa's western coast. They had already made the long, difficult journey from Africa ...

Editor's Note: A previous version of this story stated that the City of Tybee Island dedicated the official memorial rather than the Tybee Island Historical Society. On a sunny, blustery morning, ...

NEW YORK — During "The Middle Passage," the hugeness of nature is never in doubt as a clipper ship glides across the ocean's expanse. But apart from a brief roiling storm, the sea is calm. Nature is ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Deep, murky waters of the Mississippi Sound hold 350 years of history in each current. The Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Marker Project honors the millions of Africans who ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - A marker in Biloxi now honors and shows the very place the first slaves were brought during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Biloxi NAACP held the program, talking about the ...

The city of New London honored enslaved Africans who traveled on schooner Speedwell in 1761 with UNESCO Slave Route Project Site of Memory as part of it’s Slave Route Project Sunday, July 17, 2022.

Noble in intent but off-putting in design, The Middle Passage (9:05 p.m. Saturday, HBO) awkwardly mixes poetry with horrific images to relate the plight of Africans captured, shackled and crammed into ...