WEST COLUMBIA, Texas — The history of Juneteenth starts in Galveston. However, slavery was a huge part of all southeast Texas long before Emancipation. According to Mark Osborne, lead educator at ...

In the wake of the burning of Nottoway "Plantation & Resort," there has been a flurry of conversation all over social media about the use - if any - of plantations. I recently wrote about several ...

A new museum offers a rebuke — and an antidote — to our sanitized history of slavery Jared Keller At first glance, the “Wall of Honor” at Louisiana’s Whitney Plantation slavery museum — a series of ...

Slaves at Rosedown Plantation, the state’s most visited historical site, were “happy” and had “a natural musical instinct,” claimed the wording of an official exhibit sign at the state-owned and ...

Rooting one narrative branch in contemporary academia, and another on a cotton plantation in the antebellum South, Dominique Morisseau’s satire Confederates renders a frank, witty, and delightfully ...

PENDLETON — A 175-acre tract of land along S.C. Highway 187 is one of many in the area that developers are pursuing for housing development, but locals claim this former plantation site shouldn’t be ...

Two new markers were added to the Appalachian Freedom Heritage Tour on Sept. 28, 2025. It’s part of the National Park Service ...

The plantation features a slave cabin that was built in 1840, it says. Republicans have defended the new law, dubbed Election Integrity Act of 2021, saying it’s required to boost confidence in voting ...

Barry Jenkins' highly anticipated new series The Underground Railroad premieres on Amazon Prime Video today, telling the story of an enslaved woman's bid for freedom. South African actress Thuso Mbedu ...

Months after a historic election in Georgia, the state passed legislation giving lawmakers more control over elections and imposing new voting restrictions. The legislation was signed by Georgia Gov.