Credit: the Afro¬-American Historical and Genealogical Society and FamilySearch International

Giving Back: Genealogy Index-a-Thon, June 2016

By Thomas Jay Kemp on June 8, 2016

An article about an “index-a-thon” of volunteers for the Freedmen’s Bureau Project... (Read More)

Photo: "Board of directors of the Coleman manufacturing co., Concord, N.C., the only Negro cotton mill in the U.S.," c. 1899. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

First Canadian Black History Summit Makes History

By Thomas Jay Kemp on May 16, 2016

An article about the First Canadian Black History Summit recently held in Ontario, Canada, on 16 April 2016... (Read More)