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Man walks among worn headstones in Black cemetery.

Black Baptists Discover Lost Cemetery in Virginia

African American church graveyards are disappearing. Can they be saved before it’s too late?
by Nick Tabor via Christianity Today on February 8, 2022
Man playing drum

Music and Spirit in the African Diaspora

The musical traditions found in contemporary Black U.S. and Caribbean Christian worship originated hundreds of years ago, continents away.
by Livia Gershon, Teresa L. Reed via JSTOR Daily on February 4, 2022
Wyatt at podium giving speech

The Indomitable Rev. Addie L. Wyatt

The trailblazing Black labor leader and civil rights activist took her fight for equality from the packinghouse to the pulpit.
by Kim Kelly via The Nation on January 11, 2022
Boats moored in the water in front of a row of houses on the beach. Photo by Amani Willett.

Nantucket Doesn’t Belong to the Preppies

The island was once a place of working-class ingenuity and Black daring.
by Tiya Miles via The Atlantic on August 30, 2021
Diagram relating to Black population and diagram of Georgia occupations by race

The Color Line

W.E.B. Du Bois’s exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition offered him a chance to present the dramatic gains made by Black Americans since the end of slavery.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on August 5, 2021
Bob Moses at SNCC

The Quiet Courage of Bob Moses

The late civil-rights leader understood that grassroots organizing was key to delivering political power to Black Americans in the South.
by William Sturkey via The Atlantic on July 28, 2021
Destruction from the Tulsa Race Massacre, 1921.

Reflections on the Artifacts Left Behind From the Tulsa Race Massacre

Objects and documents, says the Smithsonian historian Paul Gardullo, offer a profound opportunity for reckoning with a past that still lingers.
by Paul Gardullo via Smithsonian on May 24, 2021
Harriet Tubman and Elizabeth Keckley over a map of Washington DC.

How Black Women Brought Liberty to Washington in the 1800s

A new book shows us the capital region's earliest years through the eyes and the experiences of leaders like Harriet Tubman and Elizabeth Keckley.
by Tamika Nunley, Karin Wulf via Smithsonian on March 5, 2021
Rev. Timothy McDonald III in First Iconium Baptist Church
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Attacking Sunday Voting is Part of a Long Tradition of Controlling Black Americans

The centuries-long battle over Sunday activities is really about African Americans' freedom and agency.
by Rebecca Brenner Graham via Made By History on March 4, 2021
Raphael Warnock
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Warnock’s Win Was 150 Years In the Making — But History Tells Us It Is Fragile

The selection of African American Sen. Hiram Revels in 1870 offered great hope — but it was soon dashed.
by William Sturkey via Made By History on January 18, 2021
Warner Sallman's "Head of Christ" painting.

How Jesus Became White — and Why It’s Time to Cancel That

Nearly a century later, both ‘Head of Christ’ and criticism of its role in enshrining Jesus as white endure.
by Emily McFarlan Miller via Religion News Service on June 25, 2020
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School Interrupted

The movement for school desegregation took some of its first steps with a student strike in rural Virginia. Ed Ayers learns about those who made it happen.
via Future Of America's Past on March 23, 2020

Climate Change is Wiping Out Harriet Tubman’s Homeland, and We’re Doing Little

America’s racialized topography means African-American historical sites are especially vulnerable to climate change.
by Rona Kobell via Boston Globe on October 24, 2019

Signs of Return

Photography as History in the U.S. South.
by Grace Elizabeth Hale via Southern Cultures on April 1, 2019
Still from early film of an African American man.

Solomon Sir Jones Films, 1924-1928

The Solomon Sir Jones films consist of 29 silent black and white films documenting African-American communities in Oklahoma from 1924 to 1928.
via Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library on December 14, 2018

Acquitting Elvis of Cultural Appropriation

His groundbreaking rock-n-roll was neither 'thievery' nor 'derivative blackness.'
by David Masciotra via The American Conservative on April 18, 2018

As God Is My Witness

A year-long series of photographs and stories that explain the struggle between the old South and the new.
by Johnathon Kelso via The Bitter Southerner on April 4, 2017
A man holding a sign detailing oil production

All-Black Towns Living the American Dream

Rare footage from the 1920s, when Oklahoma was home to some 50 African-American towns.
by Rhea Combs via National Geographic on October 2, 2016
Blackfoot Chief, Mountain Chief making phonographic record at Smithsonian, February 9, 1916.

Eavesdropping on History

By all accounts, young Bill Owens was a natural song-catcher, trawling across Texas in the 1930s, the golden era of American field recording.
by Cynthia Shearer via Oxford American on April 5, 2016
Map of Omaha.

A History of Redlining in Omaha

Redlining in Omaha began in the 1920s. Although outlawed in the 1960s, its effects are still present in the city's demographics.
by Adam F. C. Fletcher via North Omaha History on August 2, 2015

No Twang of Conscience Whatever

Patsy Sims reflects on her interview with the man who was instrumental in the death of three black men in Mississippi.
by Patsy Simms via Oxford American on November 6, 2014

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