The white guests sipped their drinks on the portico of the manor house as African-American field hands bent to their labors. A tent was being erected on the lawn where, in a few hours’ time, the black ...

Singer songwriter Ani DiFranco, who is known for her staunchly anti-sexist and anti-racist lyrics, has decided to cancel a feminist songwriting retreat that was going to be held on a Louisiana ...

Although the retreat was canceled late Sunday night, the petition remains up. In June 2013, Nottoway Plantation was the site of a similar fan retreat hosted by Todd Rundgren. The planned Righteous ...

Call it Ani DiFranco’s “accidental racism.” The musician’s “Righteous Retreat” for songwriters was scheduled to take place over four days at the Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, La., not far from ...

Feminist icon Ani DiFranco's "Righteous Retreat" seemed like a good idea: for just over $1,000, fans could spend four days hanging out with DiFranco and learning how to "develop one's singular ...

WEYANOKE — C.B. and Mary Cleland Owen always knew they would come home to West Feliciana. After years of living in different parts of the U.S. and in Europe, the Owens purchased Retreat Plantation ...

Over the weekend, Ani DiFranco canceled a planned songwriting retreat after fans were outraged at the choice of venue: a former plantation outside New Orleans. And not just any former slave plantation ...

See the Rainbows over Waimea Plantation Cottages. The Kauai Dream Vacation Special” for this year’s Black Friday sale" may ...

To many, Ani DiFranco is a feminist icon, an artist who has spent the past two decades earning worldwide fame for her sharply political songwriting. Now, it seems that she may have alienated many of ...

Appearing at the 44th annual Audubon Pilgrimage on March 20-22 for the first time is Retreat Plantation, which was built about 1823 and first owned by Sarah Bingman and her husband, Stephen Cobb.

The singer/songwriter wrote a %22remarkably unapologetic%22 apology on her website%2C says Jezebel The retreat was to be held at one of the largest former slave plantations in the South DiFranco says ...