Black History

Bessemer’s Historic Lincoln Theatre Being Revitalized

BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Built as a 400-seat “picture house” to show first-run movies for African American audiences, the historic Lincoln Theatre…

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Reframing the History of Slavery in Angola and the U.S.

LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — If the U.S. has 35,000 museums, a writer asked in 2014, why is only one about slavery?…

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Defining Movements, Marches, and Milestones

OAKLAND POST — The March on Washington Movement was the most militant and important force in African-American politics in the early…

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COMMENTARY: Commemorating 400 Years of the African Diaspora Experience

THE AFRO — History commonly and most often points to late August in the year 1619 when some “20 and…

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LeMoyne-Owen College ceremony marks 400-year odyssey of Africans in America

NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — It was 400 years ago when the first Africans arrived in Jamestown, Va., marking the beginning of…

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Miami aviation association to honor Tuskegee Airman

FLORDIA COURIER — A Tuskegee Airman and other aviation luminaries will be honored at the Greater Miami Aviation Association’s 92th…

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When South Africans Declared ‘Liberation’ at Two Whites-Only Beaches

LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — South Africa witnessed the beginning of the end of Whites-only beaches thirty years ago this week after…

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E.E. Ward Moving & Storage Company: A True Family Business

OAKLAND POST — Entrepreneurial journeys may vary, but all who have started businesses have at least one thing in common:…

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Organization Sparks ‘Year of Return’

THE AFRO — With 2019 marking the 400 year anniversary of the first recorded slave ships docking on Western Shores,…

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Women’s Suffrage Forged by Founding Sisters: Happy Birthday to Ida B.

CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — So proclaimed Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who fearlessly shined a light with words on the abominable dark days…

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