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Decades-old artifacts related to slavery and civil rights are rotating out of exhibits at the African American History Museum ...
At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and ...
Participants are often surprised when Asad Dandia’s Muslim Harlem tour stops at JC Barbershop in Spanish Harlem — only until ...
La Jolla Playhouse recently opened a production of Jocelyn Bioh's Tony Award-winning play "Jaja's African Hair Braiding." Set in a Harlem hair braiding salon, the story explores love, family, ...
The world is still adjusting to the historic election of Pope Leo XIV—the first American Pope and a native of the Chicago ...
Hosted by the Weeksville Heritage Center, genealogist Nicka Sewell Smith will lead a four-part virtual workshop series ...
The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the ...
The threat of changes to the African American museum has prompted strong responses from Democratic lawmakers, historians, civil rights leaders and education advocates.
Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago, has been confirmed to have African American ancestry through Creole ...
Black America is taking pride in a truth shaking up the Vatican and resonating through the streets of New Orleans: Pope Leo ...
The Clemson Area African American Museum's oral history project ... would inspire community members to preserve their family history. "Engaging with the oral history project can help families ...