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CHARLOTTE — The oldest history museum in Charlotte is set to host its annual Independence Day celebration Friday, featuring a ...
Anchored by Johnson C. Smith University, a historically Black university, the Historic West End is home to some of ...
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to museum director Ebony Howard about a new exhibit in Harpersville, Ala., that explores the lives of several Black families after emancipation.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before constructing a wooden meetinghouse in Virginia, started ...
Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, the country’s semiquincentennial (an anniversary that sadly lacks the pithy brevity of 1976’s ...
Among the gray tombstones weathered by wind, rain, and time in the historic North Cemetery of Portsmouth, N.H., there now ...
“The Black History Museum in conjunction with The Valentine, I think, are great examples of people who understand history,” Stoney said.
Baker writes damningly about the intellectual cowardice and inconsistency that set the stage for the city of ’s and ...
A proposal submitted by the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center could transform Charlottesville’s statue — and collective memory — of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The tours focus on the history of Black people in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, starting with early enslavement and telling the story of emancipation over time.