A group of educators in Texas proposed referring to slavery as “involuntary relocation” in second-grade classes — before being rebuffed by the State Board of Education.

Another 19th of June approaches and Southeast Texans get ready for the parades, barbecues and ball games celebrating the 149th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Texas. A 2009 electronic ...

A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as "involuntary relocation" during second grade social studies instruction, but board ...

The Texas African American History Memorial stands in front of the Texas State Capitol in Austin. Beginning this fall, Texas students will learn that slavery played a central role in the Civil War.

Prisoners were used for agricultural work and overseen by other prisoners using a structure that barely differed from the one used during slavery, as scholar and author Robert Chase explains.

Kids in Texas will finally learn that slavery was the primary reason for all the fighting during the Civil War, and people can't believe it took the state this long to decide that. The state Board ...

US laws created during slavery are still on the books. A legal scholar wants to at least acknowledge that history in legal citations Story by Justin Simard, Michigan State University ...

Texas was the last Confederate state to get the news, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, but at that time slavery remained legal in other states.

The failure of Texas residents to know the truth of slavery within its borders weakens its foundation.

The Bluebonnet curriculum, approved by the Texas State Board of Education, continues to sanitize slavery and be deceptive about its history in the U.S.

Washington — Former President Joe Biden criticized "ongoing efforts to erase history" during a Juneteenth Celebration Service at a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Galveston, Texas — and ...

A Houston-area teacher is under investigation after allegedly making inappropriate requests of a student during a lesson on colonial slavery.