by News Headlines | Sep 23, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Ancestry is spotlighting an important, yet often overlooked, part of American history by unveiling the world’s largest digitized and searchable collection of Freedmen’s Bureau and Freedman’s Bank records. This content was originally published...
by Darius | Sep 12, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
How Post-Civil War Reconstruction Failed African Americans After the Civil War, many African Americans were hopeful that this new post-slavery era would bring freedom and equality to all United States citizens. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out that way. Here,...
by News Headlines | Sep 3, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
This post was written by educator Etha Robinson. My experience learning about Black history as a child was negligent to none. I went to a Catholic school in Mississippi and it was run by white Catholic nuns and there were no Black teachers in any Catholic schools....
by News Headlines | Sep 3, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Going insane was a luxury. It’s the going, that’s the treat. Going suggests travel, moving. There was no going. The madness was constant and still, sitting there, like a place on a map. The women in the beautifully brutal film 12 Years A Slave were mangled and...
by News Headlines | Sep 1, 2021 | Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics
The founder of the city of Chicago was Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable. Scholars believe that he was born to a white Frenchman and an African-born Black woman in Saint-Domingue, Haiti (a French colony at the time) during the Haitian Revolution. This content was...
by News Headlines | Aug 31, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Thousands of tombstones from a Black graveyard established in 1859 have been lost in the muddy river banks of the Potomac River after they were dumped decades ago. On Monday, Aug. 23, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, and Washington Mayor Muriel...
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