Smith is surrounded by opulence and markers of white heritage like chandeliers, gilded frames, ancient oaks and botanical ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...

WALLACE, La. — Just inside the levee holding back the mighty Mississippi River, there is a quiet stillness in the land and a story that is still unfolding after more than two and a half centuries. The ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- On a chilly Saturday, dozens of people took an in-person tour of Durham's Stagville Plantation for a socially-distanced experience. For a $5 fee they spent 75 minutes learning ...

Yes, Spirit. I’ll go …” recently arrived at the Whitney Plantation in Wallace. Created by Leia Lewis, an educator, artist and ...

The abandoned plantation I’m visiting holds more than just crumbling buildings; it carries a dark past. Follow along as I uncover its secrets and explore the haunting history that still lingers today.

That story is told in a new book of the same name, the work of a pair of preeminent scholars of colonial Louisiana, Nathalie ...

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, archbishop of Washington, will celebrate a Nov. 15 Mass at 4:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic ...