Cruise the legendary Mississippi River from Memphis to New Orleans aboard a classic-style paddle-wheeler. Enjoy panel ...

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved ...

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In 1968, he became the first Black person to serve in the Legislature since Reconstruction. Shunned by colleagues at first, ...

The 'Black Belt' region in the Southern United States is significant historically, geologically, and socio-politically. Known ...

Author Tim Shea partnered with iconic Hollywood stuntman Willie Harris to tell his story. Harris began his life under Jim Crow in rural Mississippi on a sharecropping ...

Leonardo DiCaprio has starred in many widely acclaimed, Best Picture-nominated movies, from classics like Titanic to recent ...

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

A patent model of a screw press is on display at the Two Mississippi Museums. According to Nan Prince, director of Collections at the Mississippi Department of ...

Inspiration, followed by motivation and a considerable amount of perspiration changed the lives of many former slaves and ...

All over south Louisiana, and indeed across the country, people honor their dead. At historical sites, battlefields, military cemeteries and other hallowed grounds, Americans pay respects to those who ...

Sopna Kallingal revolutionized plantation farming, blending tradition with innovation to create a sustainable, diverse ...