Think of slavery and the first image that comes to mind is a 19th-century Southern cotton plantation. However, by the 1630s, slavery already existed in all 13 colonies with the first enslaved Africans ...

Mississippi celebrates the birthday of Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis on Memorial Day. What to know ...

If ever a farm had secrets, Prospect Hill is the keeper of ghosts. The former cotton plantation conceals one of the most ...

Mississippi celebrates the birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Memorial Day. Here's what to know about the ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the ...

In a quick chat before hitting the stage at the Brokolyn Paramount or her 'Matriach' book tour, we spoke to Ms. Tina Knowles about her heritage, the bold choices she made to ensure her family’s ...

The NAACP in Jackson, Mississippi, gave posthumous honors to three civil rights trailblazers, who "sacrificed everything" for ...

Sue Roman was one of hundreds of children taken from the notorious Darwin mission Retta Dixon and sent across the country to ...

I was like a sex slave. For them, that’s what I was ... Combs allegedly “forced Ms. Ventura to engage in sex acts with male sex workers while masturbating and filming the encounters ...

Covering a third of a continent, the Sahara has been the scene of migrations, military battles and fights over natural ...

As someone who has taught and fought for women’s rights for close to four decades, I find it intensely frustrating how the ...