Descendants of enslaved honor legacy, educate, and connect generations through upcoming Juneteenth celebration.

Along with conversations about Blair, the campaign is continuing efforts to rename Magruder Elementary School in York County, ...

Along with conversations about Blair, the campaign is continuing efforts to rename Magruder Elementary School in York County, ...

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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All that’s left is a portion of the façade. All else is ashes. Nottoway, like many plantations, took on a second life as a location for weddings and portrait taking. As of this writing ...

With its 200 windows and 165 doors fashioned by enslaved craftsmen and put in place with enslaved labor, Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation ... North Carolina through Virginia to Alabama, had ...

But on May 15, 2025, the largest surviving plantation mansion of them all burned to the ground, reportedly due to an electrical fire. All that’s left is a portion of the façade. All else is ashes.

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 ...