We owe the 2.7 million African American veterans in the U.S. a great debt.
View MoreTag: African American History
Confronting Slavery at Long Island’s Oldest Estates
Joseph McGill first unrolled bedding in a former slave cabin in 1999.
View More
Black, white and blues: Henry Louis Gates Jr. breaks down Albert Murray’s legacy on race and culture in America
Salon talks to Henry Louis Gates about the enduring power of music writer and visionary Albert Murray’s scholarship.
View More
BlackPast.org unlocks a treasure trove of African American history, aided by passionate volunteer editors
You may be surprised to learn that BlackPast.org, the most comprehensive African American and African history website in the nation — and perhaps the world — is based in Seattle.
View More
Searching for Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia (The Site of His Insurrection) – VIDEO
Nat Turner, a slave and preacher prone to visions, masterminded one of the most violent and impactful slave rebellions in American history. On the evening of August 21, 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia, Turner led over 70 slaves from plantation to plantation, killing every slave owning white family, including women and children.
View More
The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration
When millions of African-Americans fled the South in search of a better life, they remade the nation in ways that are still being felt.
View More
For Nearly 150 Years, This One House Told a Novel Story About the African-American Experience
On view in the new museum, the woodframe dwelling evokes the aspirations and limitations of the era following enslavement.
View More
A Thorny Question for African American Museum: Whose Story Do We Tell?
“Our museum is built on individual narratives, but you’re just not going to be able to tell everybody’s story,” curator Nancy Bercaw said.
View More
Destroying Art Depicting Slavery Shatters Everyone’s Shared Past
Corey Menafee, a Yale University employee, took a broomstick and smashed a stained-glass window depicting two slaves because, he said, he wanted to commit “civil disobedience” against the legacy of slavery.
View More
Black Films Matter
Will ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ Nate Parker’s provocative slavery saga, attract African American audiences and the Academy?
View More