Simmons grew up in Grapeland, Texas, where her family worked as sharecroppers. Now, she's the first Black president of an Ivy ...

From the moment Black people arrived on what would become United States soil, governmental policies rooted in race have ...

Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers were plotting an insurrection. According to whispers, Black sharecroppers were planning to murder the “best citizens” of the small Delta town and ...

Discover the untold history of Black Wall Streets across the US, from Tulsa to Richmond, and how their destruction and impact ...

A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb ...

T.A. Bryant Sr., a key figure in the community, was one of the first Black men to own property in DeKalb County and helped others achieve land ownership, promoting upward mobility. The Flat Rock ...

One of the sharecroppers was Fleming Adams Sr ... WATCH: Richmond Community Hospital served the Black community for decades. Preservationists want to save it. Richmond Community Hospital served ...

One of the sharecroppers was Fleming Adams Sr ... by Jeff Bennett shows land that is being cleared near graves of Black tenant farmers, Dec. 10, 2024, on the former Oak Hill plantation outside ...

While generally supportive of the project to move the graves, Hairston worries about the indignity of exhuming the graves of people who were brutalized as slaves and exploited as sharecroppers.

Roughly 275 burial plots of the formerly enslaved and sharecroppers at Danville ... According to NBC News, descendants of the buried Black families are torn about moving the remains from one ...

The first Black woman assistant superintendent ... Devurn Glenn, the son of a Jefferson County sharecropper, was an honored ...