As the Civil War was winding down 150 years ago, Union leaders gathered a group of black ministers in Savannah, Ga. The goal was to help the thousands of newly freed slaves. From that meeting came Gen ...

40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War. A year and a half later, almost all the land had ...

With a title like 40 Acres, I was worried this would be another racial trauma porn-filled horror movie. Many of us know the promise of forty acres and a mule (if not, please educate yourself here). So ...