The festival is named in recognition of the Weeping Time, the largest sale of enslaved people in United States history, which ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Annual commemorations began Thursday for one of the largest slave sales in United States history. It’s called the Weeping Time and happened in Savannah nearly 165 years ago.

Janice Roots' ancestors were chattel numbers 118 through 122, she said. Roots found her distant kin when searching national archives. She came to her grandmother's great-grandfather at number 118.

This is an opinion column by arts and culture columnist Maxine L. Bryant. The Sankofa Bird represents the idea of “going back to fetch it” – of looking back at our past to retrieve that which is lost ...