On Saturday in Slocum, Texas, the state will officially recognize the Slocum Massacre of 1910 — the attack on a black community in east Texas by white residents. The recognition comes over the ...

Bills, a Fort Worth-area journalist, wrote The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas, published in 2014. He said that while the origins of the attack remain in dispute, references to ...

AUSTIN - Nobody can say for sure how many of their black neighbors the white people of Slocum, Texas, wiped out during a killing rampage in 1910. Constance Hollie-Jawaid, a great-granddaughter of ...

In just a few days on July 29-30, it will be exactly 114 years ago to the very day that Blacks in the unincorporated community of Slocum in Anderson County, Texas were victims of a 1910 genocidal ...

Books and films have told the stories of the Rosewood massacre and the Tulsa race riot - two attacks on black communities by white mobs in the 1920s. There's far less information about a similar ...