The cemetery, already in need of repairs, was badly damaged when Tropical Storm Helene uprooted massive trees and hurled them ...
The grant for Brewer Hill Cemetery work went to the Brewer Hill Cemetery Association, a nonprofit that manages Annapolis’ oldest Black graveyard. The grant is set to go toward maintenance of the ...
HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A 92-year-old Ashland woman is working to preserve the Hickory Hill Slave and African American Cemetery, which is rooted in the community’s history. Hanover County shared ...
The cemetery is 175 years old and is considered an example of what's known as the rural cemetery movement, popular in the 19th century.
The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation released today its 2026 list of 10 Places in Peril in the state. Sites on the list include: Boggs Rural Life Center in Keysville (Burke County); Civilian ...
Black History Month is an annual monthlong celebration of African-American life, history and culture. Founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in February 1926, the observance originally known as Negro ...
Prior to her escape, Judge served as a chambermaid in the President’s House. She spent years tending to Martha Washington’s every need: bathing and dressing her, grooming her hair, laundering her ...
Vincent Carter, 72, has lived his entire life in Gum Springs, Virginia. The town is within walking distance of George Washington’s Mount Vernon — an estate where Carter’s ancestors were enslaved — and ...
Esi grew up in a modern home on Huguenot Street with its neighboring stone houses built in the 17th century by the slave-owning French Huguenot families. An accomplished Black lawyer, she returned to ...
Rhode Island Slave History Medallions will unveil a maquette of a planned 8-foot bronze statue of George T. Downing at an Oyster Fest reception Feb. 28 at the Newport Art Museum. The event, held in ...
Around 1923, the family moved to Lakeview, now in Mississauga’s southeastern corner. By 1931, he was known to be working for ...
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