Nicodemus Kansas

Edward McCabe helped establish an all-Black Kansas town on his mission to create a state inhabited and run by freed slaves. In a new book, author Caleb Gayle writes about how McCabe earned the nickname of "Black Moses" and what his quest for liberation meant.

The 143rd annual homecoming celebration recently took place in Nicodemus, the last remaining African American settlement west of the Mississippi River.

The federal government plans to send payments to Black farmers to compensate for loans and aid they lost out on during generations of discrimination. In Nicodemus, Kansas, farmers say the help comes too late.

Pioneers come to the west, leaving all that was familiar, to create a new community- Nicodemus, Kansas. To this day, descendants of that hardy bunch…