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Former Colonial Williamsburg interpreters talked about bringing African-American stories to life, and about how they felt compelled to tell their ancestors' stories appropriately. Panelists …

Historians talked about the Confederate flag’s history in relation to slavery as well as to modern day racism. Washington National Cathedral hosted this discussion in response to the decisio…

Director Lonnie Bunch gives a “hard hat” tour of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. This is an early look at the still unfinished museum, which Pres…

The Smithsonian Institution hosted a ceremony to mark the one-year countdown to the November 2016 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The event included s…

Charles Cobb talked about his book, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible, in which he discusses gun ownership and self-defense within the…

Panelists talked about the achievements of the Tuskegee airmen, the first African-American military airmen. The event featured an eleven-minute film produced by the Army in 1944 and narrated…

Scholars talked about African-Americans, the institution of slavery, and the history of the South and Confederacy. Among the topics they addressed were regional politics in the antebellum er…

Scholars and historians discussed images of American slavery and how these affected U.S. culture. They talked about the tragedy of slavery, the question of reparations, and other related top…

The forum participants discussed the importance of the printed word in shaping popular notions of slavery. They talked about their work in academia and journalism and criticized current po…