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February 16 - March 1, 2017
Tubman Visitor Center to Open March 11
By Wayne A. Young
The Maryland Park Service and the National Park Service are opening the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center Saturday, March 11 at 9 a.m.
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February 20, 2014 - March 5, 2014
George Pullman and A. Phillip Randolph’s Chicago
By Wayne A. Young
Despite how one sees George Pullman’s role in African-American life, what makes Pullman Park an historic community is his building a small town and using it to attract and retain workers.
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February 20, 2014 - March 5, 2014
Three Distinct Afro-Colombian Communities
Photo and story by Jonathan B. French
During the summer of 2013, at the annual Smithsonian Annual Folk Festival, with the theme of "One World, Many Voices," the folk festival highlighted languages that are struggling to stay alive. Palenquero was one of the languages. The language is spoken in San Basillio, Colombia and is composed of Kikongo, with origins in greater Congo, Angola, and Spain.
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December 26, 2013 – January 8, 2014
Remember the Studebaker?
By Wayne A. Young
Studebaker was as American as Ford and GM is today. .
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August 22 – September 4, 2013
The Best Independent African Museum in The West
By Jonathan B. French as told to Wayne A. Young
While Curacao is one of the most fascinating places I have visited, the Museum Kurá Hulanda is the absolute best independent African Museum I have witnessed in the Western Hemisphere.
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