Hundreds of pieces of work by famous African Americans on display in traveling ‘Homage Exhibit’ (Courtesy of: Ariel Evon Photography) ...

Famous for: Holy Rood is said to be the burial site for as many as 1,000 free and enslaved African Americans. And there's more: The cemetery, established in 1832, is currently owned by Georgetown ...

Using a new genetic approach, scientists connected nearly 42,000 people living today to 27 African Americans who were buried near a Maryland ironworks in the late 18th–early 19th centuries. The ...

How 13 migrations of African-Americans changed the nation. ... The population included Creole whites as well as free blacks, although the latter’s attempts to migrate were met with resistance. 6.

Discover the Blaxit movement, where African Americans are relocating to Africa in search of identity, acceptance and a more welcoming environment. Saturday, June 14, 2025 News ...

The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845–1877 (Yale University) A lot can happen in 32 years—and in 27 free online lectures. In this other Yale class, taught by Professor David W. Blight and ...

People dance to Go-go music near the Black Lives Matter Plaza to celebrate Juneteenth on June 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. A majority of Americans will not be celebrating Juneteenth this year ...

There are many well-known African Americans entertainers from South Carolina, who made history. Lets find out about a few. Clayton “Peg Leg ” Batesworked as a child laborer in a cotton mill ...

But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. "Bound in Wedlock" is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the 19th century.

Augustus Washington, born free to a formerly enslaved father and a South Asian mother in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1820 or 1821, was one of the first African American students to attend Dartmouth ...