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By Patrice WorthyFeatures correspondent Xinhua/AlamyEach August, African cleansing ceremonies take place at Fort Monroe to help Black Americans reconnect with their ancestors (Credit: Xinhua/Alamy) Forty years after receiving an anonymous tip, one man has been working to rewrite Black history to show where and how the first Africans arrived in the British Colonies. Standing in […]
Feb. 1, 2024, 5:00 AM EST By Curtis Bunn HAMPTON, Va. — Justice Alexander, a senior at Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, felt something come over him as the bus carrying 21 of his classmates entered the grounds of Fort Monroe on the Chesapeake Bay. Sure, Alexander knew the facts of the place: Four […]
I was relieved when Hervé, a young man from Ivory Coast who occasionally helps me around the house, finally called. It had been four agonising days of radio silence. Since his landlady had evicted him, he had been wandering the streets of Raoued, a suburb of Tunis, trying to avoid the marauding gangs. This was […]
Discovery Follows the April 2021 Announcement of the Finding of the Home of Ben Ross, Harriet Tubman’s Father ANNAPOLIS, MD — Governor Wes Moore today joined local, state and federal partners at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Dorchester County to announce the discovery of a home where enslaved people lived on the Thompson […]
A visit to the Wabash Avenue YMCA, known as the birthplace of Black History Month – CBS Chicago Watch CBS News Nearly a century ago, the origins of Black History Month began at the YMCA in Bronzeville, led by the famed Carter G. Woodson. CBS 2’s Ryan Baker takes us on a tour. Be the […]
Deep in the heart of the Pisgah National Forest near Brevard, lies the Cradle of Forestry in America. This unique heritage site commemorates the birthplace of professional forestry in the United States. As we shall see, events occurring in Western North Carolina at the end of the 19th century play a significant role today in […]
In the early 1900s, Cornell was one of a few major universities that welcomed Black students, but social segregation of the time prohibited them from living in campus housing. Instead, Black students found lodging and community with local Black families; in a literary society formed in one of these houses, a group of students recognized […]
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