Tara Roberts is surfacing human stories from the shipwrecks that killed enslaved Africans
The storyteller joins a team of African American divers on their worldwide quest to shed light on the untold history of the ...
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Diving to the bottom of the ocean to document slave shipwrecks
Tara Roberts, Explorer-in-Residence for National Geographic, came to Western Illinois University in Macomb to talk about her ...
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Portrait of Yarrow Mamout
click image for close-up All that is known of Yarrow Mamout, an enslaved African who died ... brought to the American colonies on a ship, and sold into slavery in Maryland. Before Peale began ...
Charleston's African American museum lands a $750K grant. Here's how it'll use it.
The International African American Museum received a $750,000 grant to key initiatives. Also, Forbes Travel Guide Star Awards ...
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African American Smithsonian Sets a New Standard for Museums as Destinations
That's much like Detroit’s renowned Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, whose slave ship recreation is immersive and a bit frightening. Docents at D.C.’s African American ...
Review: D.C. Museum Exhibit Illuminates the Brutalities of Slavery (opinion)
The National Museum of African American History and Culture illuminates the brutalities of slavery and Jim Crow while also ...
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The Brooks slave ship drawing
The slave ship Brooks was first drawn and published in an abolitionist broadside by William Elford and the Plymouth chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in ...
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Plano African American Museum exhibit focuses on underground railroad to Mexico
A new exhibit at the Plano African American Museum focuses on the women who organized the Underground Railroad to Mexico, a ...
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Sacred Ground: Charleston's International African American Museum's big plans
Oct 22, 2017 Oct 22, 2017 Updated Jun 13, 2023 Since the idea for the International African American Museum was publicly announced almost two decades ago, the project has swung on a pendulum of ...
Traveling exhibit in Charleston sheds light on African American history's impact
The Sankofa African American Museum made a pitstop in Charleston on Sunday to showcase African American history to the ...