SOUTH FLORIDA TIMES — Last year, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Slave Wrecks Project (SWP) joined the effort to help involve the...
OKLAHOMA EAGLE — It is a hot summer in 1921. Alex and Mattie Griffin are successful entrepreneurs on Black Wall Street, a bustling African American business district in...
Learning Black History Year Round There are many stories told about extraordinary slave escapes. Without maps or compasses, many depended on quilts, songs, and even the...
MICHIGAN CHRONICLE — To honor the life of Judge Damon J. Keith, Detroit Public TV and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History are hosting...
AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS & ISSUES — Historian and educator Merline Pitre was born on April 10, 1943 in Opelousas, Louisiana to Robert and Florence Pitre. Pitre graduated...
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN-RECORDER — St. Paul, more than many other U.S. cities, is uniquely responsible for the growth of baseball in this country, including helping to end its...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Representatives Cummings and Katko have introduced the Harriet Tubman Tribute Act in 2015, 2017, and most recently in February. The bill, as currently written, directs...
ROLLINGOUT.COM — There is no question that Atlanta is the best city to visit for a real Black history lesson. With Atlanta playing a major role in...
OAKLAND POST — Nathan “Nearest” Green, born into slavery in 1820, was an African-American head stiller (commonly referred to as a master distiller). Emancipated after the Civil...
MILWAUKEE TIMES WEEKLY — On Monday, April 15, 2019, The Milwaukee Brewers celebrated the 71st anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier during their...
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — New Orleans has many historical traditions, however, when the African-American Museum in Tremé closed in 2013, due to financial problems,...
THE PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE — The Belmont Mansion Museum, a historic stop on the Underground Railroad, was transformed into an appropriate homage on Friday to the person responsible...
NASHVILLE PRIDE — In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. penned a letter from his cell in the Birmingham Jail, where he and other protestors were...
THE AFRO — April 16, 1862 was the official date that slavery was abolished in Washington, D.C. As a result of President Abraham Lincoln’s Compensated Emancipation Act...
FLORIDA COURIER — At the end of the Civil War, Sidney George Fisher, a White gentleman from Philadelphia, declared, “It seems our fate never to get...
SAN DIEGO VOICE — Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns,” recently discussed her novel, the Great Migration, and San Diego’s role in her...
San Diego Voice — She is known as the ‘Moses of Her People.’”
CHICAGO CRUSADER — On August 25, 1619, the first ship carrying enslaved Africans to the Colonial Colonies of English North America landed at Point Comfort.
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — For more than 60 years, Lottie Gibson was a one-woman crusader for Greenville’s poor and disenfranchised.
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — In September, 1997, Dr. Michael Blakey, former Howard University archaeology professor visited New Orleans.
THE AFRO — Black Love Day, founded by Ayo Handy-Kendi, the Breath Sekou, is celebrating 26 years.
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — In New Orleans, there is always something to celebrate.
OAKLAND POST — It took 167 years and the forward-thinking citizens of Contra Costa County to seize the moment.
PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP NEWS — San Bernardino Valley College faculty and staff are energized awaiting distinguished scholar Dr. Maulana Karenga.
ROLLINGOUT.COM — When it comes to Black colleges and Universities, the common historical narrative is these schools were founded after the Civil War.