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, ...

Sharecropping is a system where the landlord-planter allows a tenant (usually a poor, Black family) to farm the land in exchange for a share of the crops they harvest. This encouraged poor tenants to ...

The Epps-McGill Farmhouse at 679 Eastland Avenue has sat vacant for almost 20 years, but a local organization is raising money to preserve the historic structure and to use it as a means to educate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Le Roy Central School District is pushing back against criticism from the New York Civil Liberties Union over a classroom ...

Author and longtime educator in Marlboro County, Dorothy Jackson McQueen, has written a new book. 'A Sharecropper’s Daughter Tells Her Family Story' reflects on McQueen's upbringing on a sharecropping ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHAM) – A New York school district is under fire after a student and parent filed a complaint over a classroom history lesson about share cropping and slavery. The activity was part ...

LE ROY, N.Y. — The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) says students in the Le Roy Central School District were forced to mimic sharecropping and roleplay slaves during a lesson. The NYCLU said in ...

HEY, GOOD MORNING, JOE. SO YEAH, WE’RE AT MLK AND LOCUST, AS YOU JUST SAID, DEALING WITH THE OPENING CEREMONIES. AND IT IS LIKE A FAMILY REUNION OUT HERE. MANY PEOPLE LAUGH AND SAY, HEY, HOW ARE YOU ...

The end of sugar planting closes a major chapter in Hawaii’s history. But what will be done with the aina? One hopes it will not become gated estates, with prices tragically out of reach of our local ...

LE ROY — Le Roy Central School District superintendent Merritt Holly on Tuesday dismissed criticism from the New York Civil Liberties Union over the school district’s handling of a lesson in which ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) is calling out a Genesee County school after it says that students were instructed to roleplay as slaves, sharecroppers and plantation ...