This Juneteenth I will stand at the Hermitage and help celebrate Black music. The Hermitage was Andrew Jackson’s plantation outside Nashville. I want to be honest about how stra ...
More than 100 onlookers packed a ceremonial courtroom for legal arguments before an appeals court about the presentation of ...
The ground at the Hermitage is sacred and stained, and the music made by enslaved people and their progeny is what still ...
It was a Tuesday, January 29, 1850, and Sen. Henry Clay had set himself the none-too-modest goal of solving the seemingly ...
Slavery was neither central to America’s founding nor the primary source of the country’s subsequent prosperity. Yet both ...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. In a ruling that is notably silent on Louisiana’s history of slavery and white ...
Freedman’s State Park in Brookeville honors the property's former owner, Enoch George Howard, who bought freedom for himself ...
A deeply personal essay connects the loss of a mother, Louisiana politics and the weakening of the Voting Rights Act to a ...
For years, a story that slaves' cornrows hid maps and messages to facilitate their escapes to freedom spread online as the stuff of internet legend. The idealistic story, indicative of the very real ...
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How Missouri City became a hub for Black excellence in Houston's suburbs — despite its racist past
Columnist Joy Sewing recounts the triumphs and trials of the Houston suburb of Missouri City, dubbed a "model city" for African Americans in the U.S.
A state representative blasted Justice Clarence Thomas as a "sellout" after SCOTUS cleared the way for a map with only one majority-Black district.
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