265 Black History Resources

Yale center in New Haven takes hard look at slavery, in history and today

Slavery was America’s largest industry in the decades leading up to the Civil War.The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University exists to help Amer Read More

How Money From Slave Trading Helped Start Columbia University

The revelation last year that Georgetown University had, in 1838, sold 272 slaves owned by the school in order to pay off debts reignited a conversation about how America and its old, elite institutio Read More

The New Orleans museum looking back at slavery to help America move forward

In 1989 on his first visit to the United States, Senegalese historian Dr Ibrahima Seck heard a Mississippi bluesman perform.“What I was hearing was so familiar,” says Seck of that mini concert b Read More

US Government Recognizes Site of Former Slave Prison

Most visitors easily recognize Washington, D.C., landmarks such as the U.S. Capitol or the White House. However, many might not know these and other iconic structures in the nation’s capital wer Read More