Jeremy Ellis’s ancestors were among the 110 enslaved people who survived the last known Transatlantic voyage in 1860

Long-obscured and forgotten, the burial plots of more than two dozen people enslaved by the seventh president of the US are located and honoured

The Clotilda shipwreck will remain submerged as a monument to the 110 enslaved people it carried—and in tribute to their descendants in Mobile, Alabama

London Mayor backs new work, which will be unveiled in 2026, with £500,000 funding

The artist Sandy Williams IV’s wax replica of the Lincoln Memorial melted during the East Coast heat wave

In a time of increased lawsuits over diversity initiatives, a civil rights organisation aims to make the history and legacy of slavery in the US undeniable through art and first-person narratives

At the Brooklyn Museum, the American photographer’s self-portraits reveal the city’s links to colonialism and slavery that were largely erased

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A collection of essays and biographies takes an innovative approach to exploring the RA’s role in creating a canon of art founded in empire and enslavement

The London institution may have woken up to its responsibility of presenting its role in Britain’s imperial past. But please don't go back to sleep...

The National Museum of Slavery, due to open in 2030, is part of an ongoing process being undertaken by the Dutch state to investigate the repercussions of its colonial past

The Rio de Janeiro site, where one million enslaved Africans disembarked, retains its Unesco World Heritage status

Artists, poets and writers will also respond to statues of William Beckford and Sir John Cass following the introduction of the UK's "retain and explain" policy

Although the artist is best known as the subject of a portrait by his master, a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will shine a light on his life and career

Speakers from around the world have been invited to a two-day talks programme centred around the display

The historic Charleston Museum and the forthcoming International African American Museum will explore the city's painful past

The Barbados-born artist confronts the unpalatable past of Guy Ball, the great-grandfather of the Holburne Museum’s founder

Grada Kilomba's multilingual work is part of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair at Somerset House

In her Armory Show solo stand with Higher Pictures Generation, Nona Faustine calls attention to the city’s oft-overlooked and pervasive ties to slavery

The work, depicting the Lieutenant-General Thomas Picton, is now on display as part of an exhibition reframing his legacy

Artists including Lakwena Maciver and Godfried Donkor will create work examining colonial history in Britain

After four people who toppled Edward Colston statue are acquitted, the debate over problematic public art deepens

Following questions by The Art Newspaper, tags stating the works were under interpretation were immediately removed from the website

Trial reignited the debate about the value of colonial-era contested monuments and statues

'The Sun King at Sea' shows how Louis XIV, known for his long reign, and cultural and political power, was also a cruel slave-keeper

Sally Mann's images of the Great Dismal Swamp gutted by wildfire "epitomise the great fire of racial strife in America"

Banksy is selling t-shirts to help fund costs of four accused protestors

As Jesus College confronts its ties to slavery, the Pakistani Neo-miniature artist asks whether decolonisation need necessarily be a violent process

Complex that will include a research institute for the Barbados Archives—a 400-year-old documentation of the British transatlantic slave trade

Museum of the Home trustees vote to relocate the sculpture after UK government pressured them to keep it