Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A judge asked a black defendant why he was carrying a machete “unless you are a sugar plantation owner”. District Judge Leo Pyle ...

After the nation’s largest antebellum mansion, Nottoway Plantation, burned to the ground in an unexpected and devastating fire, the owners are sharing what’s next. Last week, just days after the ...

The Woodland Plantation House sits near the banks of the Mississippi River in LaPlace, La. The raised creole-style building with a rusty tin roof and wide front porch has Black owners for the first ...

Nottoway plantation owner Dan Dyess will consider rebuilding the Antebellum-era mansion in White Castle, once home to a wealthy sugar planter and 155 enslaved people, after a structure fire Thursday ...

Many thoughts rumbled for space in my head as I watched the media’s relentless updates about the flames slowly engulfing the historic Nottoway Plantation in White Castle. First, I thought it was ...