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Alicia Henry, Artist Whose Modest Works Asked Big Questions About Visibility, Dies at 58 | ArtNews, October 2024

An Artistic Celebration of Paul Robeson’s Legacy | Rutgers Alumni News, October 2024

These 17 Pictures Tell the Stories of Black Athletes in America | Smithsonian Magazine, October 2024

Why Shirley Chisholm Once Visited This Notorious Segregationist | PushBlack, September 2024

Volunteer Archivists Decipher Thousands of Untold Stories from the American Revolution | National Park Service, August 2024

America’s newest monuments unveil a different look at the nation’s past | USA Today, August 2024

Where MAGA Granddads and Resistance Moms Go to Learn America’s Most Painful History Lessons | Politico, August 2024

New York Cemetery for Enslaved People Reclaimed | Newsweek, August 2024

University of Virginia Suspends tours that had come under fire for mentioning Thomas Jefferson’s ties to slavery | NBC News, August 2024

African classical music: nine great works by African composers that you should hear | BBC Music Magazine, August 2024

’10 Million Names’ project takes ABC News’ Pierre Thomas to the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved | ABC News, August 2024

Freedom Summer @ 50: The Politician | American Experience, August 2024

7 Thrilling Tales That Upturn What We Know about Black History | Electric Lit, August 2024

Slavery and Emancipation Laws in 19th Century New Jersey | NJ State Library, July 2024

Archaeologists May Have Found Home Built by One of New England’s First Black Property Owners | Smithsonian Magazine, July 2024

National Museum of African American History and Culture Announces New Exhibition Exploring the Legacy and Impact of Mary McLeod Bethune | Smithsonian, July 2024

Take the Family on a Civil Rights History Road Trip | Afar, July 2024

Newest National Park Service is a stark reminder of the era of segregated schools in the U.S. | CNN, July 2024

In a California gold rush town, some Black families are fighting for land taken from their ancestors NBC News, July 2024

Navy exonerates 256 Black sailors who were unjustly punished after deadly 1944 California port explosion | CNN, July 2024

Action Fund’s 2024 National Grant Program Awards $3M to Preserve 30 Sites Nationwide | National Trust for HIstoric Preservation, July 2024

Ida B. Wells, an Upstander through Journalism | Facing History and Ourselves, July 2024

Old ‘Colored School’ to be museum chronicling N.J. district’s Black history | NJ.com, July 2024

Nation’s 1st Black-owned country club gets grant to preserve N.J. course’s history | NJ.com, July 2024

The Black fugitive who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the end of US slavery | The Conversation, July 2024

A World War I veteran is the 1st Tulsa Race Massacre victim to be identified in city’s yearslong investigation | PBS News, July 2024

Groundbreaking Study to Tackle Cancer Disparities among Black Women | NPQ, June 2024

These Badges Shed New Light on the Enslaved Workers Who Built Charleston | Smithsonian Magazine, June 2024

Museum of Modern Art honors Frederick Douglass with immersive exhibit | ABC7, June 2024

Virginia museum works to uncover town’s history of slavery | wbur, June 2024

A Basket Maker Keeping Alive, and Reinventing, an Ancestral Craft | NY Times, June 2024

African American Cultural Center Long Beach works to teach Black history beyond the basics | Press-Telegram, June 2024

Juneteenth to Jamestown: A tale of legacy, freedom & unfaltering perseverance | ABC15 News, June 2024

Ancestry Releases Records of 183,000 Enslaved Individuals in America | Smithsonian Magazine, June 2024

What Harriet Tubman did with the rest of her life | The Harvard Gazette, June 2024

‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ Opal Lee discusses her work to solidify the holiday | NPR, June 2024

Sonya Clark’s New Public Artwork Unpacks the Interwoven Histories of Freedom and Enslavement | ArtNet, June 2024

Frederick Douglass delivers his “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” speech | History, June 2024

This Upstate New York National Historical Park Is Reopening a Landmark That Honors Harriet Tubman | Travel+Leisure, June 2024

A Civil War hero got a new statue. Her name is Harriet Tubman. | The Christian Science Monitor, June 2024

Tom McKone: Enslavers, abolitionists and the Underground Railroad | VTDigger, June 2024

What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’ | The Conversation, June 2024

Byron Donalds expresses nostalgia for the Jim Crow era, when ‘the Black family was together’ | Politico, June 2024

Oklahoma Supreme Court Dismisses Tulsa Massacre Lawsuit | NY Times, June 2024

Seven years ago, he was working at Chipotle. He just sang opera on the National Mall. | The Washington Post, June 2024

NEH Virtual Bookshelf: Juneteenth | National Endowment for the Humanities, June 2024

An African American holiday predating Juneteenth was nearly lost to history. It’s back. | USA Today, June 2024

African American Sports Resources | Montclair State University Libraries | Last Update May 24, 2024

Twin sisters buy former plantation to preserve and protect Black history | ABC News, May 2024

A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years | NY Times, May 2024

How the Murder of a Black Grocery Store Owner and His Colleagues Galvanized Ida B. Wells’ Anti-Lynching Crusade | Smithsonian Magazine, May 2024

Harriett Tubman raid to free more than 700 in South Carolina to be honored | Maryland Matters, May 2024

A fuller picture of history emerges at Virginia plantation of Nelly Custis Lewis | News4 Northern Virginia, May 2024

How States Like New Jersey Can Finally End School Segregation | Real Clear Education, May 2024

Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools. | ProPublica, May 2024

Tracing Charleston’s History of Slavery, From a Burial Grown to a DNA Swab | NY Times, April 2024

This Play Within a Play Confronts the Power Dynamic Between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson | Smithsonian Magazine, April 2024

American History and Culture To Display Space Devoted to Black Design | National Museum of African American History & Culture, April 2024

America’s Black Holocaust Museum was founded by a lynching survivor. Here’s what you’ll learn there | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 2024

Children and Museums: You Can’t Start Early Enough | NY Times, April 2024

As Elections Loom, Congressional Maps Challenged as Discriminatory Will Remain in Place | ProPublica, April 2024

Amid Debates Over Black History, a Park Stands For Truth and Reconciliation | Rolling Stone, April 2024

Faith Ringgold Perfecty Captured the Pitch of America’s Madness | NY Times, April 2024

Hollywood’s New Fantasy: A Magical, Colorblind Past | The New York Times Magazine, March 2024

National monument honoring enslaved Black people set to open | Axios, March 2024

New Alabama sculpture park, Black history museums are changing the way history is told | USA Today, March 2024

The enduring story for Underground Railroad Quilts | NPR, March 2024

Shani Mott, Black Studies Scholar Who Examined Power All Around Her, Dies at 47 | NY Times, March 2024

Unforgotten: Connecticut’s Hidden History of Slavery | Connecticut Public, March 2024

A New Initiative to Protect Black History Starts With Coltrane | NY Times, March 2024

Portraits Found in the Attic: Black Women in the Gilded Age | Messy Nessy Cabinet of Curiosities, March 2024

6 Side-By-Side Portraits Of Black Civil War Heroes And Their Direct Descendants | Bored Panda, March 2024

Restorative Compensation: Moving from Theory to Practice | NPQ, February 2024

Black History Month: A picture of change in Houston | abc13 Eyewitness News, February 2024

The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for Freedom | NJCSS Journal, February 2024

Teaching with Documents: Wallace’s Defense of Segregation | NJCSS Journal, February 2024

English professor’s two-year grant will help trace the spiritual lives of enslaved church congregants | Rutgers Camden, February 2024

The Home of Carter G. Woodson, the Man Behind Black History Month | NY Times, February 2024

A Black author takes a new look at Georgia’s white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery | Y!News, February 2024

What I Know Now: Best-Selling Children’s Author Inducted into Black Authors Hall of Fame | R Foundation, February 2024

How one man’s epic family story links hundreds of years of Black history in N.J. town | NJ.com, February 2024

Submerged evidence of rice cultivation and slavery found in North Carolina | Heritage Daily, February 2024

Museum exhibit highlights the untold story of New York City’s 19th century Black working-class families | ABCNews, February 2024

Alumna’s First Book Chronicles History of Women in Hip-Hop | Rutgers Today, February 2024

What Genealogical Records Taught Me About My Family | Smithsonian Magazine, January/February 2024

Changing Underwriting Rules…for Racial Justice | NPQ, December 2023

Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark | Rutgers University Press, January 2024

Who is Really Buried in Timbuctoo Cemetery… and How Do We Know? | Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, January 2024

Stunning 160-Piece Harlem Renaissance Exhibition To Open At Met | Patch, Harlem, NY, January 2024

Bad-faith reverse-discrimination claims hurt America’s economic future and global standing | Yahoo!Finance, January 2024

Facing Backlash, Some Corporate Leaders Go ‘Under the Radar’ With D.E.I. | NY Times, January 2024

At Florida’s only public HBCU, students are wary of political influence on race education | AP, January 2024

How to Build a Truly Inclusive Nonprofit Volunteer Program | NPQ, December 2023

Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties | NPQ, December 2023

Possible Therapy for Sickle Cell Won’t Cure Its Racist Legacy | NPQ, December 2023

Mickalene Thomas Boldly Imagines the Interior Lives of 19th-Century Black Sitters—and Brings Them into the Present | ARTnews, December 2023

Now, Black Figures Have a Name, a Frame and a Show | NY Times, December 2023

The descendant of slavery and choir director who saved a beloved Christmas carol from extinction | America, December 2023

Searching for Black Santa: The Contested History of an American Holiday Tradition | Comparative American Studies, December 2023

Inside the Three Days That Reframed Black Women’s Health | NY Times, December 2023

‘The four centuries of slave trade shaped the spectre of racism and are woven into the fabric of global development’ | The Guardian, December 2023

A Banned Book on Racism Becomes a Gripping Netflix Documentary | Y!Entertainment, November 2023

Listen to All Episodes of “The Kids of Rutherford County” | ProPublica, November 2023

Nearing Her 109th Birthday, and Still Waiting for Her Day in Court | NY Times, November 2023

Mass Grave Recalls Ugly Past of a Texas City Where ‘Life Is Sweeter’ | Y!News, November 2023

James J.G. Bias and Eliza Bias: Medical Care and Social Support for Freedom Seekers in 1838 | 1838 Black Metropolis, November 2023

Yusef Salaam Joins the New York City Council | Black Enterprise, November 2023

Courtney Bryan’s Music Brings It All Together | NY Times, October 2023

The Most Controversial Statue in America Surrenders to the Furnace | NY Times, October 2023

A century ago, W.E.B. Du Bois published a short-lived magazine for Black families. Now it has been reborn as a book | CNN, October 2023

A Racist Harvard Scientist Commissioned Photos of Enslaved People. One Possible Descendant Wants to Reclaim Their Story. | ProPublica, October 2023

Afro-Cuban artist reimagines Renaissance art with Black people at the center | CNN Style, September 2023

A Stunning Show of Portraits by Barkley Hendricks Has Opened at the Frick, Where the Artist Was Once Inspired by Old Masters | ArtNet News, September 2023

Slave descendants on Georgia island fighting to keep protections that helped them keep their land | AP, September 2023

Virginia’s Public Universities Have a Long History of Displacing Black Residents | ProPublica, September 2023

A New Jersey teacher is decolonizing the classroom one lesson at a time | SmartNews, September 2023

’10 Million Names’ project aims to recover hidden history of enslaved African Americans | ABC News, August 2023

Florida’s academic standards distort the contributions that enslaved Africans made to American society | The Conversation, August 2023

Plantation slavery was invented on this tiny African island, according to archaeologists | Live Science, August 2023

Family Ties Detected in Colonial Cemetery in Delaware | Archaeology, August 2023

Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization | The Collector, August 2023

A landmark study opens a new possible way for Black Americans to trace their ancestry | NPR, August 2023

Henrietta Lacks’ family settles with biotech company that used her cells. Here’s why her story is so important. | Yahoo!Life, August 2023

DNA of enslaved iron workers illuminates African American history | Reuters, August 2023

How racism became a marketing tool for country music | NPR, August 2023

What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway? | NonProfit Quarterly, July 2023

A shipwreck awash in Black history takes center stage in Alabama | NBC News, July 2023

Centering Inclusion After Affirmative Action: A Conversation with Jakada Imani | NPQ, July 2023

Montclair’s Howe House a Testament to NJ’s Uncomfortable and Dark Past | New Jersey Monthly, June 2023

Black CEOs on the Fortune 500 reach new record high in 2023—meet the 8 executives | Yahoo!Finance, June 2023

NJISJ launches New Jersey Reparations Council | New York Amsterdam News, June 2023

As a South Jersey borough’s Black population shrinks, residents work to preserve history, culture | NJ Spotlight News, June 2023

Enslaved by George Washington, This Man Escaped to Freedom—and Joined the British Army | Smithsonian Magazine, June 2023

What Would an Economy That Loved Black People Look Like? | NPQ, June 2023

A New Front in Reparations: Seeking the Return of Lost Family Land | NY Times, June 2023

Supreme Court Gives the Voting Rights Act a Tenuous New Lease on Life | NY Times, June 2023

New history museum delves into contributions of African American diaspora | The Hill, June 2023

Queen City: remembering the black neighbourhood erased for the Pentagon | The Guardian, June 2023

How The Catholic Church Profited From Slavery | NPR, June 2023

The mystery behind the unmarked graves of enslaved New Jerseyans | NJ.com, June 2023 

As the nation celebrates Juneteenth, it’s time to get rid of these three myths about slavery | CNN, June 2023

Mother Mary Lange, Founder of First African-American Religious Congregation, Declared Venerable | National Catholic Register, June 2023

How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S. | ProPublica, June 2023

Earliest Juneteenth celebration photographs from 19th-century | USA Today, June 2023

Leadership Is Voice | NPQ, May 2023

The First 10 Words of the African American Dictionary Are In | NY Times, May 2023

Not White But Not (Entirely) Black: On the Complex History of “Passing” in America | Literary Hub, May 2023

Only surviving fragment of ‘slave’ cloth found in Derbyshire record office | The Guardian, April 2023

Is the Metropolitan Museum of Art Displaying Objects that Belong to Native American Tribes? | ProPublica, April 2023

New Jersey authorities torch legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | NJ.com, April 2023

Confederate Tributes are Losing Their Patron Saint | NY Times, April 2023

This once enslaved 17th century artist was misunderstood for centuries. A new exhibition rewrites his story | CNN Style, April 2023

How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America | The Conversation, April 2023

New ‘Latino’ and ‘Middle Eastern or North African’ checkboxes proposed for U.S. forms | NPR, April 2023

‘Foundation of the bridge’: Recalling ‘Courageous Eight’ who risked all to spearhead Selma marches | USA Today, March

Black and brown Minnesotans get worse sleep than white people. Researchers at the University of Minnesota say it’s hurting their health | Sahan Journal, March 2023

The Guardian view on our links to slavery: a necessary reckoning with the past | The Guardian, March 2023

The Brief but Shining Life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Poet Who Gave Dignity to the Black Experience | Smithsonian Magazine, March 2023

Portsmouth is considering returning land to residents of a historic Black neighborhood. Is it a blessing or a burden? | The Virginia-Pilot, March 2023

Beneath an Old Fireplace, Evidence of the Spirituality of the Enslaved | Atlas Obscura, March 2023

The Gullah Geechee Fight for a Legacy After Slavery | The Guardian, March 2023

Their stories were lost to slavery. Now DNA is writing them | AP, March 2023

Ancient DNA Provides ‘Solomonic Solution’ to Mystery of Swahili Origins | Haaretz, March 2023

A fairer way to pay slavery reparations | The Guardian, March 2023

Catalonia confronts past racism after slave trade documentary | The Guardian, March 2023

These Photographs of Spirituality in America Will Speak to Your Soul | Smithsonian Magazine, March 2023

Step back through time in Black history walking tour of Princeton’s past (PHOTOS) | NJ.com, March 2023

A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America | NY Times, March 2023

Telling the truth about New Jersey’s slave history | NJ Conservation Foundation, February 2023

Black Women Diarists Have Always Looked to Black Future Month | Ms. Magazine, February 2023

15 N.J. landmarks that tell Black history stories on resilience, survival and achievement | NJ.com, February 2023

South Jersey people and places to know for Black History Month | Courier Post, February 2023

I’ve been ‘code-switching’ my entire career, but experts say that shouldn’t be a workplace norm—here’s why | CNBC, February 2023

1 side owned slaves. The other side started Black History Month. How a family heals | NPR, February 2023

New Jersey’s Racial Wealth Gap Isn’t Getting Better, Study Says | Patch, Newark, NJ, February 2023

Japanese Americans won redress, fight for Black reparations | AP, February 2023

Black History Heroes: A former slave who helped get Black America into the great outdoors | USA Today, February 2023

What good are HBCUs if they mirror the anti-Blackness of the US? | Prism, February 2023

Who’s Afraid of Black History? | NY Times, February 2023

Philadelphia shrugs off national controversy as it updates and reinvigorates Black history lessons | Chalkbeat Philadelphia, February 2023

The untold Black history of DC’s most treasured park — The U.S. National Arboretum | ABC News, February 2023

A look into the history of the Black men who built the US Capitol, Tidal Basin and beyond | News4, February 2023

How reading the night sky helped Black Americans survive | National Geographic, February 2023

The rise and fall of Virginia’s ‘Green Book’ locations. What’s been lost, and what can still be preserved | 13 News Now, February 2023

When Black kids – shut out from the whitewashed world of children’s literature – took matters into their own hands | Y!News, February 2023

Aunt Betty’s Story, the Narrative of a Slave Woman | Encyclopedia Virginia, February 2023

Arlington Author Honored For Book Exploring ‘Hard History‘ | DCist, February 2023

Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom, | Bookshop.org, February 2023

“Free Our Books” Say Fourth Graders After Studying Representation and Book Bans | DC Area Educators for Social Justice, February 2023

How a former enslaved woman turned ‘The Devil’s Half Acre’ into one of the nation’s oldest HBCUs in Va | WWBT, February 2023

‘A wonderful day’: Keys to Montclair’s Freed Slave House now in community’s hands | NorthJersey.com, February 2023

Historians shine light on lesser-known Black History at Bacon’s Castle in Surry County | 3WTKR, February 2023

Slavery in Appalachia: The untold stories of Black Appalachian history | WHSV3, February 2023

American port cities from New England to New Orleans were shaped by the Transatlantic Slave Trade | Equal Justice Initiative, February 2023

This Island in South Carolina Has the First Self-governed Town of Formerly Enslaved People in the U.S. | Travel+Leisure, February 2023

Newark Students Raise Black Liberation Flag at History Month Event | Patch, Newark NJ, February 2023

How an 1800s surgeon experimenting on enslaved Black women affects the anti-abortion movement | CNN, February 2023

W.E.B. Du Bois, Black History Month and the importance of African American studies | The Conversation, February 2023

Meet The Arlington Author Raking In Awards For Her Children’s Novel That Explores ‘Hard History’ | DCist, February 2023

The Story of Mercy-Douglass Hospital | PBS, February 2023

The Meaning of African American Studies | The New Yorker, February 2023

The College Board Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for African American Studies | AP, February 2023

Ron DeSantis Wants to Erase Black History. Why? | NY Times, February 2023

The Enduring, Invisible Power of Blond | NY Times, January 2023 

Ilyon Woo’s new book explores the relentless pursuit of freedom | NPR, January 2023

America’s Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains | ProPublica, January 2023

Family plans to sell Bruce’s Beach property back to LA County for $20 million | CNN, January 2023

How some enslaved Black people stayed in Southern slaveholding states – and found freedom | The Conversation, January 2023

Church of England sheds light on ‘shameful’ slave trade ties | AP, January 2023

Nikole Hannah-Jones retells ‘The 1619 Project’ amid race education pushback | NY Times, January 2023

How do you explain slavery to kids? | National Geographic, January 2023

The Doctor and the Confederate | Smithsonian Magazine, January 2023

White contractors wouldn’t remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it. | Washington Post, January 2023

A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth | NY Times, January 2023

Maryland artist chosen to create U.S. Capitol statue of teen who fought segregation | NPR, January 2023

Opinion | ‘There Are Two Americas Now: One with a B.A. and One Without’ | NY Times, January 2023

US history is complex. Scholars say this is the right way to teach about slavery, racism. | Y!News, December 2022

Demand For Black Superheroes Is Rising, Rutgers Professor Says | Patch, Newark NJ, December 2022

What ‘Harry & Meghan’ Still Doesn’t Say About Race | NY Times, December 2022

Blowback Over Griner’s Release Exposes Depth of America’s Divisions | NY Times, December 2022

Statue of Henrietta Lacks will replace Robert E Lee | BBC, December 2022

US military academy begins removal of Confederate memorials from campus | The Guardian, December 2022

A Secret Society Tied to the Underground Railroad Fights to Save Its Home | NY Times, December 2022

First Black Percussionist in a Major Orchestra, Elayne Jones, Does at 94 | Black Enterprise, December 2022

Was the Civil War Inevitable? | NY Times, December 2022

The 1539 Project: Why Black Midwest and Iowa history matters | Y!News, December 2022

The Grimke Sisters and the Indelible Stain of Slaver | The Atlantic, December 2022

How the watermelon stereotype came to be weaponized against Black Americans | Y!News, November 2022

Opinion: The culture wars have come to the classroom. Now what? | CNN, November 2022

Preservationists Move to Save Painter Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Childhood Home in Philadelphia | ARTNews, November 2022

Newark History Society 20th Anniversary: Dr. Linda Caldwell Epps Interview with Lonnie G. Bunch III, 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution | YouTube, November 15, 2022 (Video)

How Philanthropy Can Truly Support Land Justice for Black Communities | NPQ, November 2022

Worsening racial inequality in home appraisals detailed in new report | The Source, November 2022

A Hamptons Property Fight Over a Black Whaler’s Homestead | Flipboard, November 2022

Op-Ed: Why former slave states became the foundation for American gun culture | LA Times,November 2022

Redefining Black Farming | NPQ, November 2022

CAN HISTORY CHANGE MINDS ABOUT RACIAL INEQUALITY? | Futurity, October 2022

Plans to Make Oldest School in Newark Into Museum and Boys Chorus School Scrapped, Now in Limbo | TAPinto Newark, October 2022

The forgotten history of the US’ African American coal towns | BBC, October 2022

Dundee’s historical connections to slavery explored in new trail | BBC, October 2022

Science sleuths solve century-old mystery of Martian meteorite’s discovery | Phys.org, October 2022

MacArthur fellow P. Gabrielle Foreman wants to make sure ‘unremembered’ Black history gets taught | NBC News, October 2022

Film project at Massachusetts parish memorializes former slave buried under church | Episcopal News Service, October 2022

Nearly ‘erased from history’: African Americans search for lost graves | USA Today, October 2022

Black Churches Press On With Voting Tradition Despite Georgia’s Restrictions | Y!News, October 2022

Making Black Communities Powerful in Politics—And in Our Lives | NPQ, October 2022

With Ads, Imagery and Words, Republicans Inject Race Into Campaigns | Portside, October 2022

Slavery is on the ballot for voters in 5 US states | AP, October 2022

Black women endure legacy of racism in homeownership and making costly repairs | Y!News, October 2022

Indebted: At the University of Pennsylvania, a “comforting story” about slavery and an ongoing search for the truth | The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 2022

Family members separated by slavery reunite in Monticello 200 years later | WCTV, October 2022

Descendants of 272 slaves sold by Georgetown priests to Louisiana later founded Southern University | The Advocate, October 2022

NJ Governor Visits Newark, Signs Bill To Create ‘Black Heritage Trail’ | Patch, Newark, September 2022

Nation’s First Preservation Plan to Integrate Open Space, Farmland, and Historic Preservation | Somerset County News, September 2022

Reframe, commit, and expand: How to meaningfully invest in Black leaders | Candid, September 2022

Conference on slave rebellions offers in-depth way to teach history some don’t want in schools | NBC News, September 2022

The ancient city of Great Zimbabwe was an engineering wonder. But archaeologists credited it to Phoenicians, Babylonians, Arabians – anyone but the Africans who actually built it | BBC, September 2022

‘We are a broken people’: The importance of Black homeownership and why the wealth gap is widening | Yahoo!Finance, August 2022

A Battlefield From 1777 Yields a Dozen Mercenaries’ Remains | Head Topics, August 2022

African-American History Finally Gets Its Own AP Class—And Historians Say It’s More Important Than Ever | Time, August 2022

What Was Africa to the Harlem Renaissance? Professor Kobena Mercer’s New Book Delves into the Legacy of Alain Locke | Bard News, August 2022

Nichelle Nichols Helped Show America a Different Future | NY Times, August 2022

Thousands of graves are slowly being uncovered in Dunn, revealing lost Black history | The News & Observer, August 2022

HBCUs are building a new prison-to-college pipeline | NPR, August 2022

Students help rename elementary school after 1st Black woman to graduate from N.J. district | NJ.com, August 2022

From rentals to bathrooms: Airbnb listings aren’t the first offensive effort to commercialize slave cabins | NBC News, August 2022

For Black Artists, the Great Migration Is an Unfinished Journey | NY Times, August 2022

Open Questions With Andrew Delbanco | National Endowment for the Humanities , July 2022

Building Community Institutions of Our Own | NPQ, July 2022

Data on 2022 Women Candidates by Race and Ethnicity | CAWP Rutgers, July 2022

First U.S. woman undertaker helped people flee slavery in coffins. Meet Henrietta Duterte | Y!News, July 2022

Statue honoring Mary McLeod Bethune unveiled in Statuary Hall in US Capitol | CNN, July 2022

Past redlining practices linked to present-day abandoned properties in Cook County, new report says | Chicago SunTimes, July 2022

HUD Secretary: Home appraisal bias takes away ‘opportunity to build wealth’ | Yahoo!Finance, July 2022

A Battlefield from 1777 Yields a Dozen Mercenaries’ Remains | NY Times, July 2022

7 spots in this N.J. county highlight state’s historic role in Underground Railroad | NJ.com, July 2022

Historic Trenton’s Day in the Life: The Higbee School | Greater Trenton, July 2022

Historic slave toolchest now on display at African American Heritage Museum | NJ Spotlight News, July 2022

Did an Enslaved Woman Try to Warn the Americans of Benedict Arnold’s Treason? | Smithsonian Magazine, July 2022

South to the Promised Land | Smithsonian Magazine, July 2022

Telling a New Story About the Economy: Building From the Bottom Up | NPQ, July 2022

How corporations can move beyond pledges toward economic justice | GreenBiz, July 2022

July 9th, the ratification of the 14th amendment, is reminder of the continuous fight for freedom | Opinion | Y!News, July 2022

SC massacre was forgotten by history. Now it’s being recognized for the first time | Y!News, July 2022

Artist Paints the First Full-Color Hyperrealistic Portrait of Harriet Tubman | My Modern Met, July 2022

Family Name | Macky Alston, July 2022

He Was Born In A Prison To An Incarcerated Mom And Faced Mental Issues — Now, Lorenzo Lewis Is Behind A Mental Health Barbershop Movement | Y!News, July 2022

Black Marines were ‘dogged’ on this base in the 1940s. Now they’re honored there | NPR, July 2022

Brooklyn’s ‘Harshest Slave Code’ Rivaled the South, Researchers Say | The Tablet, June 2022

The Price of Silence: Part One | NJ PBS, June 2022

America’s ‘African Founders’: The Black Thinkers Who Shaped the U.S. | MSN.com, June 2022

One of the most prolific slave trading ports in the US will finally open as a museum | CNN, June 2022

‘The beginning of a conversation’: the Met examines a complex history of emancipation art | The Guardian, June 2022

New Names Recommended for 9 Army Bases That Honor Confederate Leaders | NY Times, May 2022

Artist Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe on the Hidden Stories of Black American Cowboys That Fuel His New Paintings | ArtNet News, May 2022

What It Looks Like to Build a Pro-Black Organization | NPQ, May 2022

A slavery-era instrument is on the National Mall, singing ‘songs of liberation’ | NPR, May 2022

Unlocking the Secrets of the ‘Clotilda,’ the Last Known Slave Ship | Smithsonian Magazine, May 2022

Opinion: The Long Game of White-Power Activists, May 2022

How an Air Force veteran discovered his new house was the seat of a plantation where his ancestors were enslaved | CBS News, May 2022

Subjected to Painful Experiments and Forgotten, Enslaved ‘Mothers of Gynecology’ Are Honored With New Monument | Smithsonian Magazine, May 2022

US schools are not racially integrated, despite decades of effort | Y!News, May 2022

Rutgers-Newark Professor Salamishah Tillet Receives Pulitzer Prize | Rutgers-Newark, May 2022

19-Year-Old Will Be Youngest African American To Graduate Law School In U.S. History | Black Americaweb, May 2022

This Woman Built a Formidable Gambling Empire in 1920s Harlem | History.com, May 2022

African Americans of Wilmington’s East Side Reveals Stories of the Past | Delaware Today, May 2022

Teacher Suspended for Telling Students to Pick Cotton in Slavery Lesson | NY Times, May 2022

Black-Owned Restaurants Are The Heart Of Our Communities. The Black Restaurant Accelerator Is Helping Them Grow And Thrive | National Urban League, May 2022

Clemson native’s clothing line is highlighting African American history at universities | Greenville News, April 2022

The Major Findings of Harvard’s Report on Its Ties to Slavery | NY Times, April 2022

Microaggressions, diversity, and career advancement: Why Black workers are joining the Great Resignation | Yahoo!Finance, April 2022

National Park Service Adds 16 New Underground Railroad Sites to Commemorative Network | Smithsonian Magazine, April 2022

Preservation of Historic Property Is Result of Collaborative Purchase | Town Topics, April 2022

Artist Derrick Adams Wins $1.25 Million From the Mellon Foundation to Start a Database Documenting the Black Culture of Baltimore | ArtNet News, April 2022

A DC neighborhood’s history explored in a new Smithsonian exhibit | WTOP News, April 2022

NJ sees record-high year for reported bias incidents in 2021 | NJ Urban News, April 2022

‘Aren’t You Overstating?’: Chris Wallace and ‘1619 Project’ Creator Nikole Hannah-Jones Debate If ‘The Great Generation’ Was Racist | Y!News, April 2022

The Enslaved Woman Who Liberated a Slave Jail and Transformed It Into an HBCU | Smithsonian Magazine, April 2022

Working to Ensure Diverse Communities Are Engaged in the 250th | Philadelphia 250, March 2022

How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America | Y!News, March 2022

Black Children and Adolescents Can Achieve Greater Heights With Research-informed Policies and Practices | Child Trends, March 2022

Moorhead museum tells long-overlooked stories of Black history | MPR News, March 2022

Did George Washington Have an Enslaved Son? | The New Yorker, March 2022

Newark receives major funding for Harriet Tubman Monument | The Positive Community, March 2022

Descendants Trace Histories Linked by Slavery | NY Times, March 2022

How Budweiser Pioneered the Year-Round Use of Black History to Sell Stuff | Slate, March 2022

A Deadly Riot, and Then 3 Trials, 110 Convictions and 19 Executions | NY Times, March 2022

$101K needed in race to raise funds to restore historic N.J. Undeground Railroad site | NJ.com, March 2022

‘Incredible and tragic’ story of America’s largest free Black settlement comes to Pensacola | Y!News, March 2022

Painter Dominic Chambers on How Jungian Theory Shaped His Art, and the Transformational Role of Therapy in His Own Life | ArtNet News, March 2022

Reframing History: A Conversation at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History | YouTube, March 2022 (video)

The Lives of Monuments: Memory, Revolution, and Our National Parks | National Park News, March 2022

Growth of Black immigrant population projected to outpace growth of U.S. born Black population | Y!News, February 2022

How Black archives are highlighting overlooked parts of history and culture | CNN, February 2022

Critical race theory in cancer research: Ask yourself ‘who is missing’ | Healio.com, February 2022

US homeownership hits record high, but rate among Black Americans lower than a decade ago: analysis | Y!News, February 2022

In Twilight of Life, Civil Rights Activists Feel ‘Urgency to Tell Our History’ | NY Times, February 2022

What Happens to Middle School Kids When You Teach Them About Slavery? Here’s a Vivid Example | Slate, February 2022

National Civil Rights Museum announces launch of Corporate Equity Center | Commercial Appeal, February 2022

Reconstruction is often overlooked. A Smithsonian Black history exhibit says it’s an ongoing process | USA Today, February 2022

Black History Month: How Octavia Butler’s legacy was born out of a bad science-fiction movie | USA Today, February 2022

Cleveland Museum of Art surveys America’s racial history through powerful works by modern, contemporary Black artists | Cleveland.com, February 2022

With Black history being censored in schools, here are some suggested books for kids | Desert Sun, February 2022

Denée Benton on Fighting for Authenticity in The Gilded Age | Harper’s Bazaar, February 2022

Eight Books That Reevaluate American History | The Atlantic, February 2022

Green Book Cleveland rewriting city’s Black history, finding lost sites | Cleveland.com, February 2022

California’s Black History Started Here in Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara Independent, February 2022

One Thousand Years of Slavery | Smithsonian Channel, February 2022

Meet Paul Williams, the Trailblazing Black Architect Who Helped Define Los Angeles | Y!Life, February 2022

Reckoning With Enslavement: Post Memory & Reparations of the Soul | YouTube, February 2022 (video)

Why You Should Know This Pioneering Black Architect | MSN.com, February 2022

They served, too. New database shows Black women’s service in World War II. | Y!News, February 2022

Meet William Harvey Carney, The Fearless Civil War Soldier Who Never Let The American Flag Fall In Battle | All That’s Interesting, February 2022

The Black Record Label That Introduced the Beatles to America | Smithsonian Magazine, February 2022

The Afro Latino who redefined how Black history is remembered | NBC News, February 2022

‘Do unto others’: Children of late Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee cherish father’s impact | MSN.com, February 2022

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Sheds Light On Hidden Black Civil War Heroes In New Documentary | Y!News, February 2022

One city block and thousands of beads: Olayami Dabls honored for unique museum | Michigan Radio, February 2022

Fall River was an Underground Railroad junction. These 6 homes are part of Black history | Herald News, February 2022

From Mississippi to Pennsylvania: How two Black communities are linked decades after the Great Migration | Y!News, February 2022

Several Important Racial Justice Bills Passed and Signed into Law in New Jersey | NJ Institute for Social Justice, January 2022

A Hidden Figure in North American Archaeology | Sapiens.org, January 2022

We Still Can’t See American Slavery for What it Was | NY Times, January 2022

‘If not us, then who?’: inside the landmark push for reparations for Black Californians | Y!News, January 2022

Fire tragedies in Philadelphia and the Bronx underscore systemic racism in urban planning | Y!News, January 2022

65 Years Ago, Levittown Cemented Place In Civil Rights History | Levittown Now, January 2022

New: Open images from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture | Artstor.com, January 2022

Conservationists See Rare Nature Sanctuaries. Black Farmers See a Legacy Bought Out From Under Them. | ProPublica, October 2021

5 Black American Towns Hidden Under Lakes And Ultimately From History Books | Travel Noire, July 2021

The Black Women Making Birth Better | NPQ, November 2020

This is America: I’m a Black person who loves Halloween. Please stop ruining it for me | USA Today, October 2020

Spiders and Skin-Changers: Two African American Witch Tales for Halloween | American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project, October 2019