Sunday, February 18, 2007

Growing Number of Museums Preserving Black History and Culture

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Tourists drawn to exhibits on slavery, civil rights movement, achievements Museums that focus on the critical role of African Americans in ...
Saturday, September 23, 2006

Recording history of black churches tells nation's story

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They may not have ornate stained-glass windows and seating for a thousand people, yet these small, rural churches that dot the landscape of ...

Chapel Added To State Registry

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Society Hopes Chapel Will Serve As Living History By Jenny Jones KEEZELTOWN — Al Jenkins propped a small ladder against the crumbling stone...
Sunday, July 30, 2006

Cheaney, respected KSU professor dies

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By Jennifer Hewlett HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER Henry Ellis Cheaney, a respected retired Kentucky State University history professor, died Tu...
Sunday, July 23, 2006

Series will retell explorer Sheppard's life

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Larry Muhammad - lmuhammad@courier-journal.com The Courier-Journal Who was the swashbuckling explorer, big-game hunter, missionary in Afri...

BCC course explores slavery in Monmouth

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Many escaped and fought with the British army in the Battle of Monmouth BY KAREN E. BOWES, Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN - Slavery in Monmouth C...

Discovering The Underground Railroad

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As the first state to abolish slavery in 1780, Pennsylvania was a key part of the Underground Railroad. The abolitionists and free blacks wi...
Monday, July 17, 2006

Ex-slaves' land heirs feel island shift

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Coastal S. Carolina's Gullah-Geechees find ancestral plots are vulnerable to grabsBy Dahleen GlantonTribune national correspondentPublis...
Sunday, July 16, 2006

A Land of Racial Harmony?

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New Philadelphia, Ill., settled by a freed slave, was seen as a colorblind utopia. Amid doubts, town descendants want the truth unearthed. B...

Long Memories in Land of the Freed

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Begun by Ex-Slaves, a Prince George's Community Values Its Past By Tony Glaros -- Special to The Washington Post, Saturday, July 15, 200...

Black scholar joins Sons of the American Revolution

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10:40 AM CDT on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 By JEROME WEEKS / The Dallas Morning News ADDISON – Groucho Marx would have approved. On Monday, Henr...

Black astronaut helps to erase myth of race limitations

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I am really ashamed to admit it, but shuttle launches have become so routine I seldom pay them close attention. After the loss of seven astr...

Slavery reparations effort continues to gain ground

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By Erin Texeira Associated Press Originally published July 10, 2006 Advocates who say black Americans should be compensated for slavery and ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Students unearth history, inspiration

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July 11, 2006 BY ESTHER J. CEPEDA Staff Reporter Twenty miles east of Kankakee, on the side of a dusty one-lane gravel road, lay the abando...