Ain’t nothing funny on this April Fools’ Day considering the wrath of President Donald Trump coming from the Tesla White ...

One of the sharecroppers was Fleming Adams Sr., Bennett’s great-great-great grandfather. Known as “Flem,” he was born into slavery on another plantation in 1830.

Plans to honor the sharecroppers buried there include a memorial archway at the new site. The graves for hundreds of Black tenant farmers on a Virginia tobacco plantation will soon be moved to a ...

Roughly 275 burial plots of the formerly enslaved and sharecroppers at Danville, Va.’s Oak Hill plantation site are being moved to make way for an industrial park. Oak Hill, built in 1820, was ...

The Delta plantation system started in the 19th century when white farmers went there in search of fertile farmland, escaping declining productivity in other Southern states. They brought with ...

DANVILLE, Va. (AP) — A decision to move the remains of hundreds African American tenant farmers from a former Virginia tobacco plantation to a dedicated burial ground has elicited a range of ...