The lawmaker said the Founding Fathers considered slavery a "necessary evil." Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., defended controversial comments he made over the weekend after coming under fire for claiming ...

Twitter erupts as allegations surrounding the senator’s family and their connection to slavery emerge as a reason why he opposes ‘the 1619 Project’ curriculum Loading the player... Sen. Tom Cotton ...

Victoria’s Secret has created a new partnership with a Black-owned cotton farm, Bridgeforth Farms, in north Alabama. The initiative is meant to advance diverse suppliers for the large retailer’s ...

As the cotton harvest approaches, its success hinges on Bajans’ willingness to unify their economic potential and the historical weight of slavery—and the trauma they carry. The Bajan government, in ...

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton is facing a backlash over comments he made about the Civil War following Nikki Haley's controversy over the same issue. Haley, a Republican primary candidate, sparked ...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., came under fire over the weekend for comments he made in an interview published Sunday, in which he said that the country's Founding Fathers believed enslaving ...

A photo shows colorful cotton field (Photo by Yasin Dikme/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) *A white teacher in Rochester has been placed on leave after his slavery lesson had his class of ...

PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — There’s no painless way to explain the history of a massive brick structure being renovated into apartments in this central Alabama city — a factory that played a key role in ...

Last week the crusading Scripps-Howard newspaper chain started a stark series of articles by Correspondent Hugh Russell Fraser about the “peonage of 8,000,000 share croppers in the South.” The ...

MAYAPUR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Wearing thick gloves and a shawl wrapped around her face, Kanchen Kanjarya is busily picking cotton in the midday sun on her small farm in Mayapur in ...

Shane visits Julius Tillery's cotton farm to learn about the legacy behind the brand. Shane’s journey begins in North Carolina, where Julius Tillery – a.k.a. “The Puff Daddy of Cotton” – is a ...

The Bajan government, in collaboration with Exclusive Cottons of the Caribbean Inc., is inviting unemployed individuals ...