The sun wasn't up yet when a dozen people began to gather on Wednesday at an all-Black cemetery in this South Texas border ...

Former slaves bought 200 acres in Victoria County in 1879. Over generations, the land turned into a legacy of wealth and opportunity.

Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time.

But she was soon finding currency in a whole new realm — unearthing the untold gold mine of Texas Black history. She came upon the Library of Congress archives, wherein the WPA “Slave ...

Minding the Campus There is no shortage of ideological absurdity in higher education today, but few decisions are as galling ...

Texas was still a Mexican state that outlawed slavery, but the Baptists brought slaves and the institution of slavery with them, and Texas became an independent republic in 1836. Baylor’s first ...

Slavery became illegal when the 13th Amendment was adopted ... Prigg was cited in a 1989 Supreme Court decision overruling ...