Jo Banner, a co-founder of The Descendants Project, a nonprofit organization that focuses on eradicating the legacies of ...

Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled ...

LAPLACE, La. — One of the largest slave revolt plantations in American history is Black-owned for the first time. Over 200 years ago, scores of slaves escaped a plantation in LaPlace and marched ...

Are the ancestors trying to send us a message? Nottoway Resort—or more commonly known as Nottoway Plantation—the largest remaining antebellum plantation home in the United States, was ...

The African American Heritage Trail was first launched back in 2008 ... The event was held at the Whitney Plantation in Edgard. There, many people learned history that is not taught in classes.