A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with ...

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

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

For many in the Natchez community, the scars from racism run deep and the struggle is far from over, as evidenced by stories ...

Step into Louisiana’s storied past as historic homes and plantations open their doors to immersive tours, cultural tales, and ...

One of the highlights of my genealogical journey has been the great privilege I have had to spend two decades corresponding ...

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 ...

The winning numbers in Tuesday's drawing of the "Mississippi Cash 3 Evening" game were: ...

Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South, where scores of ...

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

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

The owner of the space, Alexis Noble, said they extended the exhibit because it coincidentally has ties to the new ...