For many Black Americans, knowing their complete origin story can be challenging because of how they came into the country.
The African American Museum of Southern Arizona, located in Tucson, is the only Black history museum in the state.
Black History Month is an opportunity to augment traditional written documents with visual, sonic, dramatic, and multimedia ...
Griots are valued storytellers tasked with maintaining a tradition of oral history, most prominent in parts of West Africa.
“It’s a repository for African American history,” says library assistant Marco Frazier. In the 1940s, efforts began to collect oral histories and artifacts about African Americans in the Bay Are ...