The white folks had all the courts, all the guns, all the hounds, all the railroads, all the telegraph wires, all the newspapers, all the money and nearly all the land – and we had only our ignorance, ...

Does the rate at which people of color use social media tools directly correlate to the history of sharecropping 200 years ago? Blogging While Brown founder Gina McCauley thinks so. Her panel, “Social ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger. If ...

The term sharecropping immediately conjures up vivid and negative images of the South’s post-Civil War confusion, where the popular system of a landowner leasing land to farmers in exchange for part ...

Sharecropping became popular after the Civil War’s end in 1865 when landowners no longer had slaves and there were millions of freed slaves looking for work. In many cases, former masters turned to ...