After being ambushed by a rival group, Prince Abdul Rahman Ibrahima went from being a Muslim prince and colonel in his father’s army to being enslaved in Mississippi. Ibrahima spent 40 years enslaved ...

The soul singer Kirby was born Kirby Lauryen Dockery, and that last name connects her to the Dockery Plantation in Mississippi, where her enslaved ancestors picked cotton. Now, as a songwriter, Kirby ...

"I remember when I couldn't vote," Dr. Robert H. Smith Sr. said. A 99-year-old man who was born the son of a sharecropper on a plantation is making sure his voice is being heard in this year's ...

King — better known as B.B. King — was born on a cotton plantation outside tiny Itta Bena, destined to reign as the ...