A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New ...

Artifacts housed in the Barbados Museum, such as branding irons and iron shackles, serve as stark reminders of this harrowing ...

Bowling Green Plantation, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, 1795. Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would ...

In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...

A top production of the hit musical, Purlie is now being presented by American Theater Group (ATG) at Hamilton Stage in ...

Born into slavery in 1822, Barney L. Ford was the product of an enslaved mother and plantation-owner father. His life began ...

Forced to work on the sugar and cotton plantations of St. Charles and St. John the Baptist Parishes, they banded together across the fields of dozens of plantations to build an army and fight.

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the ...

Jeff Apter weaves together interviews, newspaper reports, and background from a memoir that Perkins wrote. His love for music ...

It would truly be grand to read opposing views to your left-leaning paper. Unfortunately, in my view, the newspapers where ...

The first paragraph of the executive order directs the General Services Administration “…to advance the policy that Federal ...

The North Carolina Rice Festival is back for the sixth year. The four-day event, kicking off Wednesday night at the WWAY event center in Leland, organizers shared some history of the Gullah Geechee ...