There is a moment in Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel “Invisible Man,” when the narrator arrives in New York City and is amazed by what he perceives as the unlimited freedom enjoyed by the city’s Black ...
The power of storytelling has always been at the heart of Black resistance. Long before social media activism and viral videos exposed injustice, enslaved Black Americans wielded their narratives as ...
Gloria Feimster, a 92-year-old Raleigh native, told WRAL News she discovered part of her grandmother’s story lives in the Library of Congress. Her grandmother, Emma Blalock, was interviewed in 1937 ...
Black History Month has become a marketing ploy, a way for entertainment publicists to plug African American clients, a quick and easy way to segregate the telling of what is American history into 28 ...
His account of bondage in Edenton described men flogged 100 times and doused with brandy to increase the pain, and white owners so cruel they whipped other people’s slaves for failing to tip their ...
Trying to find 'Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives' on your favorite screen? Here are a few key highlights to round things out about the history flick. Unchained Memories: Readings ...
NEWPORT, R.I. — Duchess (Channing) Quamino was said to be the daughter of an African prince, and became an accomplished baker and businesswoman. Newport Gardner was a musician, community activist, and ...
Understanding history is not about understanding formulas or narratives. Instead, we must understand the people who made ...
Drawing from narratives of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), How the Slaves Saw the Civil War presents first-hand testimony in ...
Last month, the Florida State Board of Education unanimously approved new African American history education standards for K-12 public schools. Among the many alarming directives: middle school ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Florida Department of Education faced angry reaction from across the nation to new African American history standards ...