Black History
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Syncopation & Satchmo
The involvement, influence, and introduction of jazz by Black artists and the community has brought joy to people across the world for over a century. There is nowhere better than the open air…
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Up, Up, & Away!
At the very start of this February, one of the oldest and last living Tuskegee Airmen, Harry Thaddeus Stewart, Jr., died. His 2019 related stories of his time in the all-Black Air Force…
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Integration in Action
After the Supreme Court ruled that schools must integrate across ethnic and racial (self-created) divides, the difficult work of seeing the decision enacted, especially in states with far more inequity in civil rights,…
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Natural Pathways & Strength
Araminta Ross, who changed her name to Harriet Tubman upon her marriage (to a free man) when she was twenty-two, employed years of observations, preparations, and boldness to take advantage of an opportunity…
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Freedom in the Movement
That the hues of human skin, different facial features, variety of places of origins, and practices of ancestors continue to be reason for hatred and violence in the world (or ever were) is…
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Marooning into Abolition
A slave market located in Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, shaped the community of the isles even to the present day. The conditions slaves faced in their daily lives…
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Integration: An Ongoing Pursuit
Commemorating the one U.S. Supreme Court case bundling five different struggles for integration in schools, the Brown versus Board of Education National Historical Park in Topeka, Kansas is a reminder of the work…
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A Nation of Plantations
Among the wrongs that took place in the United States of America, slavery will never cease to be highlighted. Many slaves were entrapped upon plantation land, driven to work for families and slavemasters…
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Reckoning & Remembrance
Last year, Wright Thompson published The Barn: The Secret History of A Murder In Mississippi, following the events leading up to the teenager’s brutal murder during his visit to see family in Mississippi.…
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From New Nation to Fighting for Equality
Boston’s Black community in the 1800s fought for equality, influencing their region and the United States. The Boston African American National Historic Site includes a Heritage Trail tracing the actions and locations of…