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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
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