A Brooklyn Museum show features sculptures, paintings and works on paper in its exploration of the artist’s work, which met ...

After reconstruction, the transitional period immediately following the Civil War, a slow and steady stream of African Americans began leaving the South for the North and the West. A bigger ...

The Epps-McGill farmhouse in Kingstree is being preserved to tell the story of sharecropping in South Carolina.

In 2020 she released her stunning album The Sharecropper’s Daughter, which featured guest appearances from Black Thought, Styles P, Ledisi, Saul Williams and Chronixx. Expect to hear a sweet vibe of a ...

Community efforts to overcome racial inequities, an editorial series created in collaboration with Report for America, with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, that highlights the efforts of ...

It's not a vehicle for improvement. Very often the sharecropper is in debt at the end of the year, and continues in debt year after year. So it does give black families far more independence than ...

The fictional luxury brand Umberto Muratori in Emily in Paris draws inspiration from Italian luxury designer Brunello Cucinelli's real-life company, his strong ethos of humanistic capitalism, and the ...

Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn ...

Flanked by county officials and community leaders, David Baldwin turned over a pile of dirt with his shovel, a symbolic ...

Willie Gary's net worth has increased, ranking him among the wealthiest attorneys in the US. His success and reputation of ...

“Protesting keeps despair at bay. Being involved has given me a lift, a sense of community, of being with people who share my feelings and values. I really love the connection it gives me with the ...

Jackson) in 1936 Philadelphia. Willie and Lymon have come down with a truck full of watermelons that they plan to sell. Willie, a sharecropper, wants to buy Sutter’s land, where his ancestors worked ...