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    • How we uncovered the true story of 40 Acres and a Mule

      Mother Jones· 23 hours ago

      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. One was dated 1865 and named Fergus Wilson ...

    • Caribbean writer takes Walter Scott fiction prize

      BBC via Yahoo News· 19 hours ago

      Judges described it as a "richly imaginative, urgent and compelling" work. He received the £25,000 first prize from Mathew Maxwell Scott, a direct descendant of Sir Walter ...