One hundred and 40 years ago under the hot Atlanta sun, a group of African American women formed an assocaition and staged a major labor organizing effort that was leadng...
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2021" I GROW FROM HEALTHY SOIL "Source: daily_thoughts_from_the_hill@hillsideinternational.org Photo by Lisa on Pexels.com " Our ancestors planted us in rich, fertile soil. They fertilized our soil with their...
I grew up in a city where rage, lies, and fears led to the savage killing of a disabled African American man who was accused of accosting a “Karen.” It...
http://A ca. 1885 view of Nicodemus, Kansas, shows the original First Baptist Church and the Williams General Merchandise store. From Kansas State Historical Society, in NPS Cultural Landscape Report A...
A recent weekend webinar about slave history in the physical building of the University of Georgia in Athens, supports the extended research that traces African Americans' involvement on campuses across...
Ultimately, who are we? Based on our twisted and tangled family histories, African Americans and Afro Caribbeans are the ones whose ancestors were sold and traded to satisfy enslavers' mortgages...
Some 30 years before the United States' Emancipation Proclamation was signed, 800,000 slaves in the British colonies were declared freed. "August First" or Slavey Abolition Act, marks the day in...
@ThabitiAnyabwil writes about Bass Reeves who retired in 1907 as a peace officer with thousands of arrests to his namehttps://twitter.com/ThabitiAnyabwil I often call us history detectives. That is, as researchers...
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.comBalance by the sea Deep into our genealogy research about ancestors we knew and others we learn more about through our "detective" work, there are lots...
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.comBalance by the sea Deep into our genealogy research about ancestors we knew and others we learn more about through our "detective" work, there are lots...
