From the plantations of 19th century Mississippi to the steel mills of 20th century Youngstown to the board rooms of any major 21st century metropolis, work has long been a defining trait of the black ...

While traveling through the South collecting music for the Library of Congress, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax ventured onto ...

We spoke to Robert Randolph, The Teskey brothers, Taj Farrant and , Kanchan Daniel, about the past and future of blues.

Over the next few years, the Department of Archives and History aims to revitalize some of the state's most beloved historical sites.

THINGS GOT WEIRD Metal Detecting a Plantation House from 1850 in Mississippi! When we started to crawl under the house things got really strange! Join us on this adventure as we find old relics, coins ...

Mississippi is a state rich with history. From the northern corners ... In 1890, the sprawling Windsor Plantation was marred by a fire, leaving only 29 large columns standing from the home ...

This spring the Lakeport Plantation Museum, an Arkansas State University Heritage Site, will host a reading retreat focusing ...

Omar Robinson is nothing short of sensational in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s staging of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” at Hibernian Hall — an outstanding production that reminds us, once again, ...

A review of history indicates a strong case—but mixed public support ... The U.S. cotton industry, which depended on enslaved plantation labor in the Deep South, accounted for at least 5% of the U.S.

It was run, effectively, as a punishment camp for Black Americans, described by Ta-Nehisi Coates as ‘the gulag of Mississippi’, and is still cited as an example of everything wrong with the US justice ...