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New Orleans celebrated the repatriation and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century. On Saturday, ...
Angela and Suzen Witcher continue their father's dedication to preserving Pennington African Cemetery, one of New Jersey's ...
Several years ago, two African American women, Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills, decided to do some research on the history of ...
The president claimed he was showing footage of a mass ‘burial site’ of over a thousand slain white farmers in an ...
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Harambee Kingston’s Juneteenth Festival returns for its eighth year Saturday, June 21, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Pine Street African Burial Ground at 157 Pine St. The ...
After decades of working in parallel worlds of sculpture and fiction, Barbara Chase-Riboud is achieving deserved worldwide ...
A New Orleans committee announced the remains of 19 Black Americans whose skulls were taken to Leipzig, Germany, in the 1880s will receive a jazz funeral.
Third Class Petty Officer Ronald P. Yuhas was aboard a Navy landing craft laden with tons of ammunition when it was struck by a North Vietnamese rocket in Da Nang harbor on Feb. 25, 1969. One of more ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a key component of a mysterious artifact at Sutton Hoo, a National Trust site in Suffolk, ...
As we near Memorial Day, a holiday that serves as a powerful reminder of the sacrifices and courage of U.S. service members ...
That’s the idea behind the Harlem African Burial Ground initiative. Many people who walk, drive by, or even live in this community near East 126th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues may not even ...
Richmond is slowly coming to terms with its past as a major slave-trading market. The Richmond Slave Trail, a self-guided walking tour of 17 sites, chronicles the trade of enslaved Africans to ...