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07/27/2024

07/27/2024

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03/19/2024

We have a great opportunity to share our heritage!

03/18/2024

African American Topeka History Tours are back! Register today! Travel the City with radical historian Donna Rae Pearson and Sherri Camp, author of “African American Topeka!”
You will see where history happened in Our Black community. See and learn about historic Black churches, homes, businesses, communities, schools and more.

History Tour Our African American Topeka History Travel the City with radical historian Donna Rae Pearson and Sherri Camp, author of “African American Topeka!” You will see where history happened in Our Black community. See and learn about historic Black churches, homes, businesses, communities,...

11/17/2023

“Black Homesteaders of the Great Plains.”
Date: Friday, November 17th at 12:00 Noon CST

Join the Movement of Ideas! With Humanities Kansas, where stories are shared and ways to connect with new ideas across the state.

Black Homesteaders of the Great Plains is an online event where Nicodemus, Kansas Historian, Angela Bates and a Descendant of DeWitty, Nebraska, Denise Scale will join Donna Rae Pearson for a discussion of these two thriving communities built by African-American homesteaders. Co-sponsored by Humanities Nebraska.
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/2w95tzhd

Humanities Kansas

11/13/2023

We all need the info that is in jeopardy at this moment! Make your choices heard!!!

Comments due on SS-5 access As much as The Legal Genealogist tries to keep up with legal issues that impact genealogy, sometimes things sneak past. This is one of those that almost snuck past, so here's a very late call to action: We have until the end of the day tomorrow, Monday, November 13t

11/02/2023

11/01/2023

Deadline November 30, 11:59pm EDT! Scholarship Form here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHhGxpIDbrxuRoCPGw8pyDOCmLyymPdUHmEEJUnH7uIjI-Cg/viewform

09/01/2023

Ever wonder about the lineage of Michael Jackson? Check this out

Discover the origins of the Jackson industrious spirit and paternal line as Sherman McRae delves into the King of Pop’s Big Y-700 connection.

08/21/2023

The 10 Million Names project, recently launched by American Ancestors, aims to restore the names and stories of enslaved African Americans to history.

08/21/2023

Introducing the 10 Million Names Project find out more. There are at least 44 million descendants of enslaved individuals alive today, but slavery separated families, erased names, and obscured facts. The 10 Million Names Project, recently launched by American Ancestors and its partners, aims to connect the family stories of these descendants to the 10 million men, women, and children of African descent who were enslaved in the U.S. prior to emancipation and to restore their names to history.

The 10 Million Names project, recently launched by American Ancestors, aims to restore the names and stories of enslaved African Americans to history.

08/14/2023

"HeLa cells" were taken without her knowledge and became a cornerstone of modern medicine — but her family never saw any compensation.

08/14/2023

David Oyelowo is the first Black lawman of the West, Bass Reeves Check out first look images and the trailer for Taylor Sheridan's upcoming series "Lawmen: Bass Reeves"

https://blexmedia.com/lawmen-bass-reeves-trailer/

08/13/2023

Https://10millionnames.org This project plans to document 10 million names of the formerly enslaved.

10 Million Names is dedicated to finding the names of the estimated 10 million people of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America

07/09/2023

With Affirmative Action repealed, can we be surprised about this?

An Oklahoma judge dismissed the reparations lawsuit filed by the last three known survivors of the Tulsa race massacre on Friday, court records show.