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DIA's revamped African American art galleries to reopen in heart of museum this fall
The presentation is in the process of being moved to the heart of the Detroit Institute of Arts, adjacent to the Diego Rivera ...
New Orleans Jazz Funeral honors 19 victims of 1800s racist study of Black skulls in Germany
In the 1800s, a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls of 19 Black residents to Leipzig, Germany, where researchers engaged in ...
An African American holiday predating Juneteenth was nearly lost to history. It's back.
Beyond Juneteenth, other historic holidays honor Black culture and liberation in American history. Pinkster has its roots in ...
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Trails into the past: The pathways of African American history stretch across the US
The African American Heritage Water Trail takes canoeists ... the history of Black people in California going back to the 1800s. Since then, he has mapped out Black history sites across the ...
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Old African American cemetery yields DNA links to 41,000 new ‘relatives’
Facial reconstructions of enslaved African Americans who worked at Catoctin Furnace in the late 1700s or early 1800s, a boy of 15 or 16 and a woman in her 30s, at the Smithsonian's National Museum ...
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The History of Juneteenth
Juneteenth, an annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War, has been celebrated by African Americans since the late 1800s. President Biden signed ...