Margaret Charles Smith, a ninety-one-year-old Alabama midwife, has thousands of birthing stories to tell. Despite claims that midwives contributed to high infant mortality rates. Local women servicing as midwives were an important part of the community; they assisted with birthing and helped with household chores while the new mother recovered. Practices that paralleled African traditions […]

In commemoration of Juneteenth, celebrating the liberation of enslaved people in the Confederate states, and in conjunction with the display of the original Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln, and General Order #3 (which transmitted the news of emancipation to the residents of the state of Texas), we join with the Association for the […]

On Sunday, June 19, 2022 on "Father's Day," the African American Museum will be open and there will be vendors and cooks that the Museum c0-sponsoring with City Men Cooks. The W. Marvin Dulaney ASALH Branch host the and were present for the all-day activities at the Museum.

It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives […]