Preserving
Conservationists in New York are ramping up research and preservation efforts of a historic Black community that had all but disappeared, illuminating what some experts say is an “antidote” to ongoing rightwing efforts to keep African American studies out of classrooms. Weeksville, New York, located in present-day Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, had been a center […]
Contact: Lori Fogleman, Baylor University Media & Public Relations, 254-709-5959Follow us on X (Twitter): @BaylorUMedia WACO, Texas (Nov. 29, 2023) – During past family Christmas gatherings, many of us remember when older relatives regaled everyone with tales about their fascinating life stories, firsthand experiences as an eyewitness to history or simply sharing how favorite family traditions started. […]
Quirina Geary’s daughters, Niyatsitha and Xawena Geary, are rokso (gathering tule) for a ceremonial roundhouse in 2017. (© Quirina Luna Geary) By ShareAmerica The United States brings together many identities, languages and religions. This diversity is a core part of Americans’ identities, and many people have dedicated their lives to preserving their own cultures. Quirina […]
The new International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, opens to the public on June 27. It’s located at Gadsden’s Wharf, where tens of thousands of Africans debarked in the early 1800s to be sold into slavery. The elongated, pale yellow brick museum building overlooks the wharf, and its grounds along the waterfront have […]
It has been more than two decades in the making, with design, construction and other delays along the way, but the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina officially opens to the public on June 27. The museum referred to as IAAM (pronounced I AM) is about 150,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor […]
03 March 2023 EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER RNS When most people think of the United Methodist Church, Carol Travis said, they don’t picture Black people. “People still think that the United Methodist Church is white,” said Travis. “You don’t see enough Black faces even though we have been there from the beginning. We never left.”
Preserving Historic Black Churches Across the U.S. — Including Some in Brooklyn and Harlem NBC New York Source link
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — In the summer of 1969, the Harlem Cultural Festival brought some of music’s biggest acts to a park in New York City. Over six weekends, Black New Yorkers came in droves to see the likes of Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, Nina Simone, B.B. King, the Staple Singers […]
Placeholder while article actions load Over the past few months, a trio of decaying downtown buildings in Topeka, Kan., have become a window into charged local debates around historical memory and urban redevelopment. Situated between 112 and 118 SE Seventh Street, they are named for African American journalist Nick Chiles and once housed . . […]
Georgia’s gubernatorial race this year could yield the first Black woman in a governor’s office in U.S. history, but Black women have long been leaders in the state. One county is ensuring future generations of Black girls know that legacy. State Rep. Sandra Scott of Rex was on a call with Black Women Run, Black […]