A handful of looted coins with a colorful history will soon be returned to the U.S. Navy and displayed in Washington, D.C., ...

The Clotilda entered Alabama waters on July 9, 1860. Captain Foster waited for nightfall before sailing into Mobile Bay to ...

Wikimedia Commons/Leigh49137 Africatown The Clotilda brought 110 men, women, and children from West Africa to Mobile Bay, ...

Wikimedia Commons The 1865 Freedmen’s Town Settlement at Buffalo Bayou Freedmen’s Town began in 1865 after slaves in Texas ...

More than 100 years after his death, Robert Smalls — a Civil War hero, educator and South Carolina politician — will be ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Traveling by motorcoach through small-town Cleveland, MS, earlier this year, cruise guests returning to < | Travel Agent Central sailed the Lower Mississippi River on American Cruise Lines' lovely ...

A visit to the African American Museum of Iowa, then a conversation with a mother and son artist and filmmaker duo.

An immersive new exhibition at the Intrepid Museum in New York City spotlights the science and technology behind the ...

The African American Museum of Dallas is hosting its yearly Freedom Schools, teaching Black history to North Texans. Students learn about prehistory Africa to ...

Marvin Dulaney, the museum’s deputy director and chief operating officer, launched courses on African American history at the museum more than 35 years ago.

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