Looking Back to Move Forward The preservation of African American sites is often performed by everyday people who are not formally trained in historic preservation…
The Power of Design Ideas In 1860, approximately 50 years after the transatlantic slave trade was abolished, the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to…
Atlanta’s St. Mark’s Ame The historic St. Mark AME (b.1920; abandoned 1976) is located at the figurative and literal center of Atlanta’s English Avenue neighborhood….
African American Women as Civil Rights Movement Legacy Keepers in Jackson, Mississippi Jackson, Mississippi is emerging as a civil rights memory landscape of national and…
Enduring Guardians and Emergent Guarantors of African American Place Preservation an Martha’s Vineyard and Beyond Martha’s Vineyard, a Massachusetts island profiled in the National Museum…
In 2003, Jennifer Newsom, then a second-year architecture graduate student at Yale University asked her professor, ‘Why aren’t we studying black [architecture]? The professor replied,…
Liberia and The Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology Research Project In 1822, Black American settlers seeking respite from racialized persecution in the United States arrived at…
