The phrase, “Forty acres and a mule,” stems from a special field order, #15, issued by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on Jan. 16, 1865. It was supposed to have ...

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. – There’s a story of resilience rooted in the sand and soil of Amelia Island. Long before becoming a postcard destination, it was a promise of refuge for the formerly enslaved and ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — The family that owns Westland Acres, a 122-acre piece of Missouri land, descended from a freed slave and has owned the land since the 1800s. On Jan. 5, they face the City of ...

WILDWOOD — Those who grew up in or near Sumter County know that Royal is much more than a blink-and-you'll-miss-it town off Interstate 75 and State Road 44. Black homesteaders founded the community of ...

Liz Abunaw is the owner of Forty Acres Fresh Market, the only fully functioning grocery store in the Austin community.

"What would it look like if we actually got our 40 acres?" Abunaw asked. In her view, it looks like a thriving, Black ...

Forty Acres Fresh Market, a Black-owned grocery store in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood, is expanding fresh food access and reclaiming “40 acres.” ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — The family that owns Westland Acres, a 122-acre piece of Missouri land, descended from a freed slave and has owned the land since the 1800s. On Jan. 5, they face the City of ...