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Historic Black burial site under playground to get memorial
For generations, children would play kickball, hide-and-seek and jump rope on a stretch of concrete at Weccacoe Playground, unaware the remains of 5,000 Black...
Read moreHow To “Find Your Roots” Like Henry Louis Gates Jr.
How do you find the right direction in your life and understand who you truly are? On PBS’s Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates Jr. allows celebrities like Scarlett...
Read moreMy Job at the Library: Researching African-American Genealogy
Ahmed Johnson is a local history and genealogy reference librarian in the Library’s Main Reading Room and a specialist in African-American history. A...
Read morePic of the Week: Mandela Grandson Shares Lessons He Learned from His Grandfather
Ndaba Mandela, the grandson of South African leader and humanitarian Nelson Mandela, spoke in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress on June 27 with...
Read moreInquiring Minds: Uncovering the Many Meanings of Slave Narratives
Carley Reinhard first encountered stories of slave capture in early 2017 in Professor Stephanie Shaw’s African-American history course at Ohio State University...
Read moreAn English City Grapples With The Slave-Trading Past Of Its Most Celebrated Figure
A statue of a merchant from the 17th century towers over the main square in Bristol, in southwest England. It’s a tribute to Edward Colston, described on a...
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