African-American history – Page 6 – ARCHIVES of Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities

This Saturday residents of Burlington County, NJ will celebrate the history of Timbuctoo, a community founded in 1826 by free […]

The Manhattan home where author and activist James Baldwin spent the latter years of his life has been added to […]

In 2007, civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill published On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st […]

Community activists in Washington D.C. hosted a walking tour of Barry Farm, a low-income housing complex, last Saturday to show […]

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission recently announced a new social media campaign that highlights 400 years of African American […]

In 2018, the non-profit the Monumental Women Statue Fund set out to address the gender disparity among Central Park’s historical […]

A historical marker in Prices Corner, Delaware honoring the memory of lynching victim George White was stolen on Thursday. The […]

A group of foundations have acquired the photo archives of Jet and Ebony magazines with plans to donate the collection […]

Community members in downtown Brooklyn gathered on Thursday to protest the planned demolition of a house located at 227 Duffield […]

“FOURTEEN”, a new play at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, merges history and theater to bring to life Reconstruction, […]