by News Headlines | May 20, 2022 | Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Parker, himself formerly enslaved, maintained his place as a “safe house,” a stop along the Underground Railroad. The countryside around Christiana supported several families of African American farmers who had escaped from slavery and settled on the southern edge of...
by News Headlines | May 20, 2022 | Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Just a day before he issued the final Emancipation Proclamation to effectively end slavery in America, President Abraham Lincoln met a Florida cotton planter who was also a proprietor of an island off the coast of Haiti called the Île à Vache. The planter, named...
by News Headlines | May 20, 2022 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
This paper posits that primary sources meant for public consumption best allow the historian to understand how intersections between race and gender were used, consciously or not, to advocate for social attitudes and public policy in the United States and the English...
by News Headlines | May 19, 2022 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Beauford Delaney (1901-1979) struggled with poverty, mental illness, and obscurity throughout his career as a painter. Since his death, museum retrospectives have reestablished Delaney as one of America’s most vital expressionist painters. Delaney was born in...
by News Headlines | May 17, 2022 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
A new music exhibit coming to Downtown Disney that pays tribute to Black history in America and the Oscar- and Grammy-winning animated film “Soul” explores the legacy of jazz in New Orleans, Harlem, Kansas City and across the United States. The Soul of Jazz: An...
by News Headlines | May 14, 2022 | Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
The Department of Justice has reopened an investigation into the murder of Charles Oatman and the slayings of several Black men who were killed during the 1970 Augusta Riot that followed. Fifty-two years ago, 16-year-old Charles Oatman died in police custody after...