Black History

Exploring the past, present, and future of blues music.

A unique museum that uses visual art and storytelling to reveal the hidden history of the Gullah Geechee and their African ancestors.

This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.

Historic home of a Black veteran of the American Revolution and one of the earliest civil rights activists in the United States.

The final resting place of "Mother Kofi," a Black minister who was assassinated in the middle of a sermon.

A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Dedicated to the first Black recipient of the Navy Cross.

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.