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Need for organs greater than rate of donation in minority communities

Though their donation rates have increased dramatically over the last twenty years, the need for organ transplants among some ethnic groups is such...

'Visualizing Emancipation'

Throughout this sesquicentennial, students around the United States will learn about the Civil War, primarily as a series of battles fought by...

After Trayvon Martin: What to Say to Our Black Sons

One day in 1996, I was preparing to leave work when I received a panicked phone call from my friend Sally, who lived on a farm some distance from...

Lectures announced for the 2012 International Black Genealogy Summit

The 2012 International Black Genealogy Summit will be held at theRadisson Hotel Salt Lake City Downtown (215 West South Temple;Salt Lake City, Utah...

A new look for Lowcountry Africana website

The website Lowcountry Africana, focusing on African American genealogy in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, has recently debuted a sharp new...

Exploring African American patriots of the Revolutionary War

When Karen Batchelor became the first African American member of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1977, she did so under the military...

Buffalo Soldiers

Last week, the US House passed a proposal to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of alternatives for commemorating and...

South Carolina Freedmen's Bureau records now available on Lowcountry Africana

The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was established under the U. S. Department of War at the end of the Civil War in 1865,...

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson

Heart and Soul by Kadir Nelson is a stunningly lovely, beautifully written history of America and the African Americans who helped build her into...

Directory of African American genealogical societies

Earlier this year I compiled and published, without announcement, a directory of African American genealogical, historical, and heritage societies...

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