Slavery

WYSO contributor Kathryn Mobley speaks with the current president of Wilberforce University about the institution's nearly 500 year history.

Jordan Anderson was a freed slave living in Dayton, OH with his family after the Civil War. He was owned by a man named PH Anderson in Big Spring, Tennessee. After receiving a letter from his former slave master asking him to return, Anderson responded with a letter of his own. WYSO producer Basim Blunt talks to Dayton historian Dr. Larry Crowe about the famous Jordan Anderson letter.

In this episode of The Race Project series, a conversation with two Yellow Springs residents, David Turner and Cheryl Smith, about the legacy of slavery in the United States.

The Wesley Community Center’s annual Juneteenth festival in Dayton was cancelled this year due to COVID-19. But following the killing of George Floyd and…

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, the Underground Railroad ferried enslaved African Americans in the South to freedom in the northern United…

Members of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus want references to slavery removed from the state's constitution.On Wednesday, the caucus announced a…