This connection between Republicans having racist politics and supporting Black history museums for reasons of both money and smoothed over relationships with the Black community long predates Trump. For twenty.
I really enjoyed this New York Times op-ed about a fight by a historically black community to stop a dirty energy facility from being in their community and how it.
This is the grave of Prince Hall. No one knows when Prince Hall was born. It's generally considered to be between 1735 and 1738. No one knows where he was.
This is the unmarked grave of Rebecca Crumpler. Born as a free woman (I think) in 1831 in Christiana, Delaware, Crumpler grew up in Pennsylvania with an aunt who provided.
This is the grave of Henry McNeal Turner. Born in 1834 in South Carolina to free blacks, Turner had ambition from a young age. Teaching black people, slave or free,.
This is the grave of Horace Mann Bond. Born in 1904 in Nashville to a family of educators, Bond grew up in what passed for the black elite, which was.
This is the grave of Maggie Walker. Born in 1864 in Richmond to a mother who was a freed slave and cook for Elizabeth Van Lew, who herself was a.
Last week I had the opportunity to tear into the newly released manuscript of Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story Of The Last Black Cargo with a fantastic supplemental material.
