In an otherwise normal football season, two California high schools abruptly canceled the remainder of their games for the same reason. Players on both teams participated in troublesome acts of racism ...

This May 5, 2005, file photo, shows the historic pre-civil war auction block for slaves and property at its former location on the corner of Charles and William Streets in downtown Fredericksburg.

(CNN) --The city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, has removed an auction block that African Americans were forced to stand on as they were displayed and sold as slaves. The 800-pound slave auction block ...

The Yuba City Unified School District is planning to use the issue as a teaching opportunity for students on racism and the consequences of actions. A California high school’s remaining football games ...

The high school rodeo club for a predominately white high school in Faith, South Dakota, canceled its Slave/Branding Auction fundraiser, which it insists has nothing to do with the school, on April 26 ...

A North Carolina school district is offering a vague response to reports that some Black students at J.S. Waters School, a K-8 campus in Goldston, were “sold” by classmates at a mock “slave auction.” ...

Fourth grade teacher separates students by race and auctions them. April 12, 2011 -- Trying to bring a Civil War lesson to life, history teacher Jessica Boyle turned her Norfolk, Va., fourth grade ...

An historical plaque marking the site of a slave auction went missing in Charlottesville, Virginia, and police are offering an award of up to $1,000. The Charlottesville Police Department was notified ...

Historians Henry Louis Gates Jr. and James Swanson are writing a new account of the notorious 1859 auction of 429 slaves and searching for descendants. It poured rain at the Georgia racetrack that ...

In an otherwise normal football season, two California high schools abruptly canceled the remainder of their games for the same reason. Players on both teams participated in troublesome acts of racism ...