Old images of African Americans picking cotton remind many of the oppression suffered by generations of Black slaves before the Emancipation Proclamation. For Black Americans in particular ...

Tiffany Spann Wilder (D) sent an email to House colleagues explaining that several of her constituents received text messages calling them by name, saying they have been selected to pick cotton at ...

Progress has different meanings for different people. And for people of African descent, the cotton gin was not progress. It was a further entrenchment of enslavement. And for African Americans ...