Grants totaling $1.1 million will help support important African-American heritage sites including the homes of jazz musician John Coltrane and playwright August Wilson, a Virginia location central to ...

For more than 30 years, the SC African American Heritage Commission has taken a serious effort in preserving the rich African American History in South Carolina. The African American Historic Places ...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is awarding $3 million in grants to 24 sites nationwide that are critical, iconic, and historic in their importance to African American heritage. The ...

Anderson County has a rich African American history, including leaders, educators, and business owners who helped develop the region. Notable figures include the Rev. Augustus Vance, an early pastor ...

After decades of fostering African American life in Minneapolis, three historic sites are one step closer to national recognition, which will be determined in early 2027. The nominations stem from ...

“It was in a state of disrepair,” Tara Morrison, Superintendent of the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site in Washington D.C., explained. “In certain sections taking bricks out, labeling ...

The idea for the museum sprang from discussions about the redevelopment of the Butler Place public housing complex.

You could pass it every day and never know its legacy –- a modest, pale-pink house on a quiet, tree-lined block in Leimerk Park. For decades, it was home to Tom and Ethel Bradley – the city’s first ...