Wilberforce University, the oldest private, historically Black college in America, announced this week that it was lowering its tuition by 15% for incoming students who are Ohio residents. As a result ...

William Hague, leader of Britain's Conservative Party from 1997 to 2001 and currently its shadow foreign secretary, joins a long line of biographers to come out of the House of Commons. Roy Jenkins, a ...

In August 2015 I had never heard the name William Wilberforce when I curiously selected his name from a list of possible topics for my National History Day project. Eight months later, I count myself ...

Today is the birthday of William Wilberforce. Abraham Lincoln once said that Wilberforce’s name is one every schoolboy should know. Yet I suspect that many of you will not recognize him. Born in 1759, ...

The Wilberforce Trust has supported blind and partially sighted people across York since 1833. Now, an ancestor of William Wilberforce is getting on board. Laura Reid reports. Did you know with a ...

William Wilberforce was born on 24 August 1759 in Hull, the son of a wealthy merchant. He studied at Cambridge University where he began a lasting friendship with the future prime minister, William ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. One man, William Wilberforce, was used by God to abolish the slave trade in England ...

correctionThis story originally misreported Robert F. Smith's role in the tax evasion case against his associate Robert Brockman. Smith has admitted to not paying taxes on nearly $200 million and ...

JOSEPH LOCONTE is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and host of a London-based television/Internet program, "Britain and America." IN THE FIERCE struggles of the 19th century to ...

A biography of William Wilberforce, a social reformer whose Christian faith led him to spend his political career campaigning to bring an end to slavery. William Wilberforce (1759-1833) campaigned for ...