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BALTIMORE (AP) - The greenhouse on the slave plantation where Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood is filled with…
SLIDESHOW - Michael Jackson rocked the Super Bowl, Jackie Robinson was born and Coretta Scott King passed away; this is…
MSNBC - Secret rooms. Hidden passageways. Trap doors. An underground escape route through a network of caves, surfacing at a…
REVIEW - Author Daniel Rasmussen uncovers what he calls, "a vast collective amnesia" about the events of that day...
VIDEO - A 53-year-old Charlotte, North Carolina woman is fighting federal charges of enslaving a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant...
Bachmann was born in Iowa, and her family moved to MInnesota when she was young. So is her return to…
ATLANTA (AP) - A newly elected commissioner will remove murals depicting an idealized version of slavery from the lobby of…
SLIDESHOW - The memory of the Civil War collided with modern-day civil rights Monday as protesters targeted a 'Secession Ball'...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Monday's ball is like having a dance to celebrate the attack on Pearl Harbor, said Lonnie…
FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique (AP) - A court has found an 84-year-old businessman guilty of condoning a crime against humanity for praising…
OPINION - The participants in this labor pool are not given a choice, they are forced into corporate servitude...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - At least nine of George Washington's slaves also lived at the President's House, which was demolished in…
OPINION - The sharp growth in incarceration has left more black people in prison today than there were black people…
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) - In Georgia, they will re-enact the state's 1861 secession convention. And Alabama will hold a…
OPINION - What is troubling about this glorification of secession, and the efforts to preserve it, is its whitewashing of…
VIDEO - The Ross Cemetery just off Highway 5 between McKinney and Fairview was established in the 1800s as a…
TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) - The settlement was founded in large part by black cowboys, who were part of the…


The Myth of the Black Confederate has found a home primarily in Lost Cause circles, particularly Southern heritage groups like…