Jane Cook’s follow-up to her story about Black singer Marian Anderson’s 1939 Easter concert to an integrated audience of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial... (Read More)
Jane Cook writes about an Easter concert in 1939 when Black contralto Marian Anderson sang to an integrated audience of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial... (Read More)
What’s the best DNA test for Black ancestry? And what should you know before you take one? Learn more about tracing your genetic heritage here!.. (Read More)
On 30 August 1983, Dr. Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. became the first African American in space, as a member of the crew of the space shuttle Challenger... (Read More)
In this article, Jane Hampton Cook searches old newspapers to learn more about Nancy Green, the original Aunt Jemima, and the times she lived in... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega gives tips for using “Information Wanted” newspaper ads for African American genealogy... (Read More)
An article about the “Orangeburg Massacre” on 8 February 1968, when police fired on black students in South Carolina protesting a segregated bowling alley... (Read More)
An article about John Willis Menard, who on 3 November 1868 nearly became the nation’s first African American elected to Congress... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to learn more about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the “Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll.”.. (Read More)
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