Cooley Law School. She also co-hosts Genealogy Roadshow on PBS. In this blog post, Berry examines how song was used by slaves to both communicate and express feeling in the moment, as well as and ...

The songs' lyrics offer a glimpse of the true horror slaves endured as well as a hope and faith that one day they would be free. The voice for generations of African Americans, these songs laid ...

The choir rehearsing their songs, joining hands together ... Both Wendy and Betuin are victims of modern slavery, forced into domestic servitude. “I don’t feel like I was treated as a human being,” ...