Posts Tagged ‘American history’
This Day in History: America Elects Its First Black Governor
The Richmond native served in the senate before becoming governor of Virginia and, eventually, Richmond’s mayor.
Read MoreAmericans are taught FDR was the hero of the Great Depression. For one historian, that’s erasure
A new book about the Great Depression shows the important role Black workers and communities played that has often been lost to history.
Read MoreThe Historical Legacy of Watch Night
Where once enslaved people waited for the clock to strike midnight and announce their freedom, their descendants participate in a vigil.
Read MoreMagnolia Shoebox Lunch N Learn & Traveling While Black Immersive Experience
Magnolia Shoebox Lunch N Learn & Traveling While Black Virtual Reality Immersive Experience: A Historical Exploration to learn, reflect, and celebrate Black history, join The Historic Magnolia at Union Station in Winston-Salem, NC. Look for holiday special rate promo code through December 31st at check-out. Join us for a Cinematic Virtual Reality Experience that immerses…
Read More‘I didn’t realize the role rice played’: the ingenious crop cultivation of the Gullah Geechee people
Researchers in North Carolina used shallow sonar to scan canals for artefacts left by the Gullah Geechee people who lived in the area.
Read MoreKerry Washington’s ‘Six Triple Eight’ shows the important role Black women played in WWII
Kerry Washington’s stars in a film directed by Tyler Perry and depicting an oft forgotten group of Black women in WWII.
Read More‘Nickel Boys’ Leads 2025 Black Reel Awards Nominations; ‘Piano Lesson’ Close Second
The Nickel Boys is a dramatic adaptation of a book about two boys sent to an abusive reform school in the 1960s.
Read MoreBlack Lives Mattered. Then America Moved on
A small contingent of Black Lives Matter protesters stood vigil outside the Manhattan trial of Daniel Penny, a white man who was acquitted Monday of criminal charges for fatally choking Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless Black man in a subway car last year.
Read MoreNational Archives digitize cold cases of Black American murders
The names and stories of multiple Black Americans who faced racial violence will be known, thanks to investigative work by Axios.
Read MoreThis Day in History: The North Star Newspaper is Published
The creation and first issue of The North Star by Frederick Douglass in1847.
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