“Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it.

Podcast Episode · You Are The Genre · 01/23/2025 · 59m

A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History goes in depth on the impact of slavery on the borough's past and present. The Chief Historian at the Cent...

Complementing the opening of the exhibition Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy, this one-day scholarly symposium will bring together experts working on Belle Greene and/or the fields relevant...

Jupiter Hammon was born into slavery in 1711 on the Long Island estate of Henry Lloyd. In 1760 he became one of the earliest if not the very first African-American to be published when his poem, An Ev...

Julia Brock and Evan Faulkenberry, eds. Teaching Public History Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 280 pp. - Volume 64 Issue 3

The Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970 fundamentally altered the political, social, and...