History
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A Parking Lot Can Still Be Sacred Ground
Source context A Queens church is pushing to preserve a burial ground tied to early free Black New Yorkers. American history is often discussed as if it lives inside museums and official monuments. In reality, some of the most important Black history is beneath parking lots, highways, vacant land and buildings constructed before anyone decided…
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A Parking Lot Can Still Be Sacred Ground
Source context A Queens church is pushing to preserve a burial ground tied to early free Black New Yorkers. American history is often discussed as if it lives inside museums and official monuments. In reality, some of the most important Black history is beneath parking lots, highways, vacant land and buildings constructed before anyone decided…
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A Parking Lot Can Still Be Sacred Ground
Source context A Queens church is pushing to preserve a burial ground tied to early free Black New Yorkers. American history is often discussed as if it lives inside museums and official monuments. In reality, some of the most important Black history is beneath parking lots, highways, vacant land and buildings constructed before anyone decided…
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The Gullah Geechee Story Is Bigger Than the Myth of Isolation
Source context New scholarship challenges the idea that Gullah Geechee culture survived only because communities were isolated. The familiar story of Gullah Geechee culture often credits geographic isolation for preserving African language, foodways and traditions along the southeastern coast. New scholarship complicates that explanation by emphasizing movement, exchange and active cultural choices rather than treating…
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The Gullah Geechee Story Is Bigger Than the Myth of Isolation
Source context New scholarship challenges the idea that Gullah Geechee culture survived only because communities were isolated. The familiar story of Gullah Geechee culture often credits geographic isolation for preserving African language, foodways and traditions along the southeastern coast. New scholarship complicates that explanation by emphasizing movement, exchange and active cultural choices rather than treating…
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The Gullah Geechee Story Is Bigger Than the Myth of Isolation
Source context New scholarship challenges the idea that Gullah Geechee culture survived only because communities were isolated. The familiar story of Gullah Geechee culture often credits geographic isolation for preserving African language, foodways and traditions along the southeastern coast. New scholarship complicates that explanation by emphasizing movement, exchange and active cultural choices rather than treating…
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The Schomburg Proved That Black History Was Worth Collecting Before the Country Agreed
Source context The Schomburg Center is marking a century of collecting and preserving Black culture. An archive is an argument about the future. Someone has to decide that a letter, photograph, program, manuscript or newspaper deserves to survive long enough for a person not yet born to study it. The Schomburg Center’s century of work…
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The Schomburg Proved That Black History Was Worth Collecting Before the Country Agreed
Source context The Schomburg Center is marking a century of collecting and preserving Black culture. An archive is an argument about the future. Someone has to decide that a letter, photograph, program, manuscript or newspaper deserves to survive long enough for a person not yet born to study it. The Schomburg Center’s century of work…
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The Schomburg Proved That Black History Was Worth Collecting Before the Country Agreed
Source context The Schomburg Center is marking a century of collecting and preserving Black culture. An archive is an argument about the future. Someone has to decide that a letter, photograph, program, manuscript or newspaper deserves to survive long enough for a person not yet born to study it. The Schomburg Center’s century of work…
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The Unidentified Faces in HBCU Archives Are Still Asking Us to Remember Them
Source context HBCU photo archives are preserving Black history while trying to identify people whose names were never recorded. An old photograph can preserve a face and still lose a person. HBCU archives contain thousands of images of students, faculty, families, performances and campus life where the names have been separated from the picture. The…