On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

The Parallel Journeys of Joseph Bologne and Quincy Jones article by Solomon J. LeFlore, published on February 8, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Unity: The Gift of Jazz articles ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

The idea for the current exhibition at the Shepherd came to artistic director Allison Glenn almost a year ago. “I was walking ...

The congregation of the 180-year-old Govans Presbyterian Church dedicated artwork by a Baltimore-born muralist as it seeks to ...

Take a Louisiana plantation tour and discover how glamorous New Orleans society was supported by enslaved workers who made ...

As players dream of playing their way into the 125th U.S. Open at Oakmont, here's a list of the sites and schedule for Local ...

The stranger, a middle-aged white man with a navy overcoat and wearing ... told an African American that they should go back to the plantation. That the person making those comments would be ...

The first thing that you have to accept when you write a book about early blues music, Dr. Gregg Kimball says, is that you’ll never solve the mystery of it all. “We just dont ...

Her main character, Zarité (Tété), is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor ... the island to take over his father’s plantation. Before long, the Tété and ...