National Park Service announces the public roll out of the African American Civil Rights Network. They are excited to work with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History on this...

WASHINGTON, D.C.–The US Senate voted on June 27 to confirm Aimee Jorjani as the first full-time chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP). “I am honored to be confirmed as the first...

A few months back we told you about a short documentary coming out from Google Earth Outreach. The six-minute film highlights the work our Encyclopedia Virginia and African American Programs are doing to document...

Wade in the Water celebrates the sacred music traditions of African American culture in a 26-part documentary series created and hosted by Bernice Johnson Reagon, composer, scholar, and social activist.Wade, which originally aired in1994...

CROMWELL, Adelaide McGuinn, Ph.D. Professor Emerita of Sociology, Boston University, peacefully gave life a passing grade in hospice care on June 8, 2019. She held her final class in Brookline, Massachusetts, where she resided...

Charleston, SC – June 4, 2019 – In advance of the four-year commemoration of the Emanuel Nine tragedy, Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Churchannounced today plans and events scheduled to observe the fourth year since June...

Thanks to the civic engagement and diligence of Yvonne Curry and Dayton Daily News stringer Meredith Moss, today’s (Sunday 5/19) edition includes a review of the Dr Margaret Peters’ Martin Luther King, Jr Art...

On May 22, 1863 the US Government established the Bureau of the United States Colored Troops (USCT) to uniform and train soldiers of African descent. By the end of the war in 1865 over...

This article first appeared in The Tallahassee Democrat on April 27, 2019 PROSPECT BLUFF — Two hundred years ago, a post overlooking the Apalachicola River housed what historians say was the largest community of freed...