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The dehumanization begins as slaves were inspected before boarding slave vessels.
ships

Found: The Last Survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Research has placed a new name in a special place on the list of 'Clotilda' survivors.
Jonathan Carey April 4, 2019
An image of the Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter sit-in illuminates the cafe interior.
Washington, D.C.

Sweet Home Cafe

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.
Art honoring the role of Congo Square in the birth of jazz.
New Orleans, Louisiana

Congo Square

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.
Early 20th-century postcard of the "Sunset Express" train passing through Yuma, Arizona.
railroads

How the 'Sunset Route' Railroad Helped Diversify California

The connection between New Orleans to Los Angeles can still be felt today.
Evan Nicole Brown February 14, 2019
Museum exhibit.
Annapolis, Maryland

Banneker-Douglass Museum

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.
African-American Civil War Memorial.
Washington, D.C.

African-American Civil War Memorial

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.
The exhibition recreates the neighborhood through layered photographs.
infrastructure

Revisiting Detroit's Black Bottom Neighborhood, Decades After Demolition

A new installation at the Detroit Public Library conjures a lost community.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 24, 2019
Villa Lewaro.
hair

The Mansion of America's First Black Female Self-Made Millionaire Gets a New Life

As a think tank for female entrepreneurs of color.
Evan Nicole Brown January 22, 2019
The Johnsons hired their longtime cook, Zephyr Wright, as presidential chef after feuding with her French predecessor.
food

When the President and His Chef Feuded Over Cold Beans

It was part of an “enduring rivalry” between African-American and French cooking in the White House.
Ryleigh Nucilli November 29, 2018
Idlewild circa 1955.
Idlewild, Michigan

Idlewild

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."
Montgomery, Alabama

National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.
The outside of the museum.
Savannah, Georgia

Pin Point Heritage Museum

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.
The barn at the Clemens Farmstead, where James and Sophia Clemens settled in 1818.
maps

The Forgotten Black Pioneers Who Settled the Midwest

Before the Civil War, free black settlements grew in the Northwest Territory.
Sarah Laskow June 14, 2018
Peanut pie at the Virginia Diner.
Gastro Obscura

Peanut Pie

The Virginia treat can “make even your deepest-dyed Yankee start complimenting you with a southern accent.”
FOONE.
Farmington, Connecticut

The Grave of Foone

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.
Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe after a victory for their major league team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, in 1949.
sports

1,400 Baby Chicks and the Integration of Professional Baseball

In 1946 in Nashua, New Hampshire, catcher Roy Campanella made history in more ways than one.
Ashawnta Jackson October 3, 2017
Allensworth
Earlimart, California

Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.
Chuck Berry House
St. Louis, Missouri

Chuck Berry's House

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.