Books
"There are places where people find their identities and find their friends," said a patron, "and Eso Won was one…
Juneteenth
Retailers and marketers have been quick to commemorate Juneteenth with an avalanche of merchandise from ice cream to T-shirts to…
Culture Watch
"Portraits ‘N Color: Repowered" and "History Half Told Is Untold" will air this weekend on Saturday, June 18th, and Sunday,…
Black History Month
The non-binding resolution pledges Boston will remove "prominent anti-Black symbols" and teach residents its history in the slave trade.
Juneteenth
Lawmakers in Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and other states failed to pass laws to close state offices and give…
Black History Month
La. exhibit tells story of nearly 300 enslaved people Georgetown University sold to pay off its debt
"GU272 and Ascension Parish: The Jesuit and Episcopal Connection to Slavery" is a project of the River Road African American…
Black History Month
More than 2000 first-person accounts of slavery in America have been compiled for a collection that is now available online.Â
Sports
The film "Quiet Pioneer: The Wilbur Jackson Story" tells the story of Wilbur Jackson, the first Black scholarship football player…
Black History Month
The Milbank Memorial Fund is apologizing to descendants of Tuskegee experiment victims for its racist role in the deadly study.
Black History Month
America’s first penitentiary was established in Philadelphia in 1790, and it contained the nation’s first solitary confinement cells.
News
A New York native and Howard University, Haynes was born Gertrude Daniels but was affectionately known in Philly as Miss…
Women
Xernona Clayton has been working for racial harmony since the civil rights movement began, and refuses to accept mass killings…