Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...

The farmer, Banamali Penthei had raised paddy over five acres of land on a sharecropping basis but saw his hard work washed away by the relentless rains. A father of three daughters and a son ...

It portrays the plight of ordinary Southerners, including striking miners, sharecropping families and Black Americans facing violence in the 1930s. The university bought it in 1984. The $79,233 ...