A brief history of slavery in New York
In 1991, excavators for a new federal office building in Manhattan unearthed the remains…
Black History: Front & Center
African American firsts
BY JENNIFER GAMBLE-THEARD, M.ED., ASALH Historian Although Black History Month occurs…
Lynching as a system of terror in America
Teenager Jesse Washington was lynched and burned in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916. By…
The idea of reparations for slavery
The Freedmen’s Bureau was created to give legal title for Field Order 15—better known…
Africans in Cuba: Yesterday, today and tomorrow
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH The Europeans, especially Spain,…
400 years of movement and migration
At least 12 million Africans, over the course of about 250 years, were kidnapped and sold…
From biblical civilization to modern day leadership
Located in Lalibela are the first Christian churches that were chiseled and cut into the…
The many faces of Angola
João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço has served as the fourth president of Angola since…
Inventor of the blood bank and savior of the Red Cross
Drew pioneered America’s first large-scale blood bank during World War II By Attorney…
The long journey to the 13th Amendment
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH The 13th Amendment to the United States…
Mass incarceration of African Americans
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH In a 2019 post by the American Civil…
Why we need to know about our history?
Nine months before Rosa Parks, there was a young 15-year-old teenager named Claudette…
Forty acres and a mule: The idea of reparations for slavery is not new
Baptist minister Ulysses L. Houston, one of the pastors who met with Sherman, led 1,000…
1968: A pivotal year of change
Robert Kennedy and Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy toured the damages after days of rioting in…
The continuous pursuit of civil rights
BY JENNIFER GAMBLE-THEARD, M.ED., ASALH Historian People of the African Diaspora have…
His death and its meaning
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH Most of us can remember where we were…
The North Star: A symbol of inspiration and hope
BY JENNIFER GAMBLE THEARD, M.Ed., ASALH Historian The North Star is the anchor of the…
The Emancipation Proclamation
Formerly enslaved, Sally Fickland, views the Emancipation Proclamation in 1947. By…