Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Texas Historical Commission has removed a number of books from the gift shops of two former slave plantations after a white, ...

It almost reads like satire: A white woman launches a crusade to rid plantation gift shops of books she deems inappropriate. Well, this is Texas in 2023, y’all. Not that much surprises us anymore.

There’s a sad irony in a historical commission removing a book of slave remembrances, titled “Remembering the Days of Sorrow,” from a plantation’s gift shop. Yet that is one of 25 books, some about ...

WILSON COUNTY, Texas – Robin Muschalek said she often gets the same reaction when she tells someone that people were enslaved in Bexar County. “They’re shocked,” said Muschalek, co-owner of the ...

The blood-drenched history that gave the city of Sugar Land, Texas, its name showed its face earlier this year, when a school construction crew discovered the remains of 95 African-Americans whose ...

For more than 150 years, the plain limestone building sat mute behind a grand house guarded by white columns on San Gabriel Street in the West Campus neighborhood. Two stories high, the back structure ...

Home in slavery -- Demarcating home and labor : Montpelier Plantation, Virginia -- Concealing for privacy and protection : Stagville Plantation, North Carolina -- Rooting one's people : Chatham ...