History immortalized: City of St. Pete unveils bronze statue of Elder Jordan Sr.
Commissioned by the City of St. Petersburg, former slave turned entrepreneur and city…
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Demerara Rebellion of 1823
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Business Spotlight: Best-Richardson African Diaspora Literature & Culture Museum
Owners: Skip Richardson and Gigi Best-Richardson Years in Business: 23 years Location:…
DeFord Bailey
Source: Country Music Hall of Fame DeFord Bailey was an influential harmonica player in…
Ocoee On Fire: The 1920 Election Day Massacre
Jason Byrne, Medium It must have seemed like a lifetime ago to Julius “July” Perry…
Voices of Freedom Outside the South: An Oral History Resource
By Say Burgin, Black Perspectives Some of my most exciting moments as an educator have…
White Women Slave Owners, Economics, and the Law
By Terri L. Snyder, Black Perspectives In a treatise published in 1681, Anglican…
Elite D.C. School Reveals Founding Nuns Sold Slaves, Not Taught Them
Katherine Lewin, Diversity Inc. The elite Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in…
Hundreds of black deaths during 1919’s Red Summer are being remembered
America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, and yet today, 100…
Durham to honor Algonquin Tennis Club, hub for African Americans during segregation
For 30 years when the lines of segregation in Durham were more clearly drawn, the…
Up From Slavery: A 400-Year Journey
“The Cotton Pickers,” 1864, by Winslow Homer. (Public Domain) By Jeff Minick |…
Selma, The Clergy, and the Limits of Solidarity
By Georgia Jackson | Black Perspectives The church has traditionally been a fundamental…
Mapping Blackness in Yugoslavia and Post-Yugoslav Space
By Sunnie Rucker-Chang | Black Perspectives 96-year-old Fatmire is one of the few…
Red Summer of shame: How hundreds of black Americans were shot, lynched or beaten to death by white mobs rampaging across the country in 1919
By BRYONY JEWELL FOR MAILONLINE America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from…
The forgotten history of segregated swimming pools and amusement parks
By Victoria W. Wolcott | The Conversation Summers often bring a wave of childhood…
The Curious History of Anthony Johnson: From Captive African to Right-wing Talking Point
By Tyler Parry | Black Perspectives In various corners of the internet, memes circulate…
Chains, shackles and auction documents: remnants of the Africa to North America slave trade
(Reuters) – In late August 1619, a ship carrying “20 and odd” African men and…
White Women Slave Owners, Economics, and the Law
By Terri L. Snyder | Black Perspectives In a treatise published in 1681, Anglican…