“Finding this out, I was very proud,” said Jason Roomes, a descendant of three formerly enslaved men from Rhode Island, Cato, ...
PLATTSBURGH — Phillis Wheatley Peters was a witness to history before the United States was a reality. Her story and its commemoration will be revealed in Dr. Alexandria Russell’s public lecture, ...
Perhaps the two most enigmatic portraits of any Revolutionary War veteran are on display at The Stockbridge Library. In an oil painting, a study in black and white, an old man, hair whitened, wears a ...
“We think of artists usually in history as European, as male, as being trained in a certain way,” said Rujeko Hockley, co-curator of “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85,” an ...
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The contributions of Black and Indigenous patriots in the American Revolution are highlighted during a reenactment event in ...