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, ...
It almost reads like satire: A white woman launches a crusade to rid plantation gift shops of books she deems inappropriate. Well, this is Texas in 2023, y’all. Not that much surprises us anymore.
HOUSTON -- Book publishing giant McGraw-Hill is saying it will rewrite a textbook after a Pearland mother voiced concerns on YouTube about the portrayal of slaves as immigrant "workers" in her son's ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation, raising hope for change in South
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 ...
WILSON COUNTY, Texas – Robin Muschalek said she often gets the same reaction when she tells someone that people were enslaved in Bexar County. “They’re shocked,” said Muschalek, co-owner of the ...
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