6+ hour, 54+ min ago  (737+ words) In most depictions, Nanny of the Maroons is a stately Black woman with cutting eyes. Usually sporting a turban with the flair of a crown, her jaw is set and her gaze determined, as if she's staring down the British…...

7+ hour, 7+ min ago  (29+ words) Norwich Bulletin See the story of Primus, an enslaved person in a new mural in Norwich...

12+ hour, 54+ min ago  (553+ words) The Day I had been reading Heather Cox Richardson's "How the South Won the Civil War" when Jim Littlefield handed me a copy of his new book, "Fallen Kingdom. Surviving a Reconstructed South: One Family's Story." Littlefield, a former East…...

13+ hour, 19+ min ago  (687+ words) The following speech was delivered at the Hairenik Building rededication ceremony held Saturday, April 18 in Watertown, Mass. Today is a deeply meaningful moment for our community. We gather to unveil a new name for the Hairenik Building " and to honor…...

13+ hour, 20+ min ago  (248+ words) More than 100 people attended the event, including Metin Rhawi and Jacob Mirza representing the European Syriac Union (ESU), and Joseph Lahdo representing the Syriac Union Party (Gabo d'uyodo Suryoyo, SUP) in Syria. Clergy members were also present, including Syriac Orthodox…...

14+ hour, 52+ min ago  (243+ words) The Barbados Heritage District will include the Newton Enslaved Burial Ground Memorial, a national museum, an archive complex, a space for contemplation and a performing arts centre Adjaye Associates More than four years after its announcement, the project remains under…...

15+ hour, 46+ min ago  (276+ words) Made at the Library: Brooke Newman, The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas'The Library of Congress (. gov) Join Brooke Newman of Virginia Commonwealth University to discuss her new book, The Crown's Silence:…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (611+ words) Collage by Kent Moorhead using MAGA hat & Star Spangled Banner Flag from Fort Mc Henry America faces sharp disagreement over its past. The key dividing argument is the motto on the red hats of those who control the federal government:…...

17+ hour, 24+ min ago  (651+ words) In the mid-1700s, most of modern-day Fairlington and Shirlington was part of a plantation called Torthorwald, a rural retreat for the wealthy Carlyle merchant family of Alexandria. When patriarch John Carlyle died in 1780, Torthorwald was home to an enslaved population totaling…...

22+ hour, 51+ min ago  (87+ words) 24-7 Press Release Newswire MEMPHIS, TN, April 28, 2026 /24-7 Press Release/ -- NARA Honored Historian Anthony "Amp" Elmore is the "Father of African Cultural Diplomacy." Anthony "Amp" Elmore created the 1st African Cultural Embassy in American History. The establishment of the first African Cultural Embassy…...