Written in the Waters
Tara Roberts
Black Watermen of the Chesapeake
Mid-nineteenth century Maryland offered pseudo-freedom to African Americans who lived and worked on the water.
The Memphis sanitation strike
Mayor Henry Loeb refused to recognize the strike and rejected the City Council vote, insisting that only he possessed the power to recognize the union.
A group of residents in a historically black community near Cincinnati, Ohio
chased white supremacists out of their community.
the story behind the famous photo
Whites Only Water Fountain
This Savvy Librarian Was the True Force Behind New York’s Iconic Morgan Library
It fell to Belle da Costa Greene, a Black woman whose racial identity was kept secret for decades, to catalog J.P. Morgan’s immense collection of books and art Toward the…
Inside the First Black Modernist Home in West Adams, Los Angeles built in 1954 | House Tour
The Robinson Residence was initially built for the first black physician hired at the Los Angeles County General Hospital and his wife, Doris Robinson, a prominent writer and TV/Radio Host.…
Barbara Walker – ‘It’s like life itself, like the air I breathe’ | Tate
In this film visual artist Barbara Walker MBE, RA shows us around her studio in Birmingham and talks about the themes present in her practice, including temporality, power and body…
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Brownies
The Brownies’ Book, a serial published in 1920 and 1921.