The white folks had all the courts, all the guns, all the hounds, all the railroads, all the telegraph wires, all the newspapers, all the money and nearly all the land – and we had only our ignorance, ...

Historians discuss labor relations between former slaves and former masters after the Civil War. Ed Ayers: Perhaps the most fundamental thing that had to be decided the day that slavery ended was what ...

Food anthropologist Jessica Harris discusses the history of African-American food -- from slavery, sharecropping, chuck wagon chefs into the West and Buffalo Soldiers, to sodbusters, the Northern ...

HEY, GOOD MORNING, JOE. SO YEAH, WE’RE AT MLK AND LOCUST, AS YOU JUST SAID, DEALING WITH THE OPENING CEREMONIES. AND IT IS LIKE A FAMILY REUNION OUT HERE. MANY PEOPLE LAUGH AND SAY, HEY, HOW ARE YOU ...

CUMMINGS. YOU COULD NOT PUT A PRICE. ON WHAT MY ANCESTORS WENT THROUGH I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR. IT’S A DAUNTING TASK, BUT IT’S EXACTLY WHAT THE FIRST IN THE NATION CALIFORNIA TASK FORCE TO STUDY ...

The Epps-McGill Farmhouse at 679 Eastland Avenue has sat vacant for almost 20 years, but a local organization is raising money to preserve the historic structure and to use it as a means to educate ...