Every June, the nation celebrates Juneteenth — the day Union troops finally arrived in Galveston on June 19, 1865, and declared that the enslaved people there were free. But behind the parades, ...

As you step into the Ector County Treasurer’s Office, Cleopatra Callaway isn’t just balancing books, she’s making history.

A machine collects cotton in Northwest China's Xinjiang autonomous region. [Photo/VCG] As temperatures climb in the summer, 1,800 mu (120 hectares) of sustainable cotton field in Halayugong town ...

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When Danielle Scott wanders barefoot through the cotton fields in the American South, she feels no pain, but instead the spirits of her ancestors. Her life and art are only possible because of ...

Follow Danielle Scott as she makes art that explores the wretched pain and beauty of her ancestors. Follows the multi-racial, mixed-media artist Danielle Scott as she risks her own well-being by ...

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History Slavery Myths Debunked The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than Northern factory workers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and other lies, half-truths, and irrelevancies.

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And that’s just the endgame. The starting point of what many people wear is cotton, and growing it requires tremendous amounts of water, depleting resources in a world where fresh water and ...