Through a powerful blend of creative interpretation and ancestral memory, an Alabma town reckons with its past and begins to ...

Tyler Roberts sensed danger before smoke reached his room and saved his grandfather, Alderman Vernon Martin, plus went back for the dogs. Amazing story of instinct and bravery.

Roughly an hour away, another plantation is working to honor the history of those once enslaved. When Tammika Thompson first heard about the fire at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation on May 15 ...

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Firefighters from Baton Rouge battle a blaze as flames burst from the roof of the Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, La., on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Credit - Michael Johnson—The Advocate/AP ...

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 ...