Around two-dozen books were removed from two plantation gift shops' offerings after the Texas Historical Commission received complaints that the titles were too focused on racism and white supremacy, ...

History is most trustworthy when all voices in the chorus are heard. Fewer Black, brown or white Texans know the lifestyles of the people enslaved on plantations, in towns and in cities, or how they ...

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 ...

An archeological effort in Brazoria County has continued to uncover evidence that the culture of slaves and newly freed sharecroppers was much richer than previously imagined. The Levi Jordan ...

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 ...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — He couldn't read and he spent half his life in slavery. Once freed, though, Charlie Brown built a business domain in Brazoria County and eventually purchased the plantation ...

No moral analysis required for God's love: In a new document, Pope Francis said same-sex couples can now be blessed by Catholic priests. God's love isn't contingent on who you're porking! Although, ...

Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow prisoners stooped in long rows, picking vegetables by hand under the watchful eyes of armed guards on horseback. He ...