In some ways he was a lucky man. To be sure, finding yourself in bondage on a Virginia tobacco plantation was not the result of good luck, but Anthony Johnson would rise above his low status and ...

Anthony Johnson Jr. and his mother.(Courtesy of Anthony Johnson's family) A U.S. district judge dismissed the claims against Tarrant County in the civil case brought by the family of Anthony ...

Anthony Johnson, left, died in Tarrant County custody on April 21, 2024. His mother said he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Tarrant County will fund another $20,000 to help represent a jailer ...

In August of 1670, several months after Anthony Johnson's death, a jury in a Virginia court decided that, because "he was a Negro and by consequence an alien," ownership of the 250 acres Johnson ...