Afro Latino history in African American History and Culture
Home / Art / In Art, History & Culture, Video / 27 September 2018 Curator Ariana Curtis talks about a boat seat that…
A slave mother’s love in 56 carefully stitched words | KUOW
For about $300, a 9-year-old girl named Ashley was sold as a slave. Her mother, Rose, remained a house slave at a mansion in South Carolina. This was the 1850s,…
Portraiture and the Mexican American Experience
Curator Taína Caragol gives you a tour of a portrait of the late sculptor Luis Jiménez by Gaspar Enríquez at our National Portrait Gallery Related posts: Writer Rudolfo Anaya is…
Watch: Common Rallies Behind Michelle Obama to Get Out the Vote [Corrected] | The Root
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Anne Branigin The Root Actor and American hip-hop musician Common (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times), Featured Image Today, he dropped a video urging black people…
Gorgeous New ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Trailer Celebrates Black Families | Colorlines
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Sameer Rao Colorlines Stephan James, left, and KiKi Layne appear in a scene from “If Beale Street Could Talk.” (Tatum Mangus / Annapurna Pictures), Featured Image Writer…
The Black Communities That Have Fought for Their Right to Exist in the Carolinas | CityLab
There has been much deserved panic about the thousands of pigs and open-air waste lagoons in the path of Hurricane Florence, mostly in North Carolina. While the state is still…
Frank E. Petersen, First Black General in Marines, Dies at 83 | The New York Times
Frank E. Petersen Jr., who suffered bruising racial indignities as a military enlistee in the 1950s and was even arrested at an officers’ club on suspicion of impersonating a lieutenant,…
City Caught Trying To Grab Senior Citizen’s Brownstone | Kings County Politics
The city today abruptly reversed a decision to take a senior citizen’s brownstone house on a gentrified Crown Heights block after pressure from City Council Member Robert Cornegy Jr. (D-Bedford-Stuyvesant,…
Meet the gallant all-black American female battalion that served in Europe during World War II | Face2Face Africa
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Elizabeth Ofosuah Johnson Face2Face Africa The first time American women fought in a war was during the American Civil War. Women were not allowed to be selected…
Smithsonian Folklife Festival: Armenian carpet-cutting ceremony
In Armenia, the completion of a carpet and cutting it from its loom is a significant rite of passion for young female weavers. Related posts: Armenian Wedding Ceremony Meet the…