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The History of Buffalo’s First African American Teacher

by Barbara A. Seals Nevergold, PhD Ida Dora Fairbush was born on October 15, 1869 and died on September 20,

Labor Day was founded after the Pullman Strike of 1894, when President Cleveland was hoping to gain political allyship by

While America Reels in the Wake of the Most Recent Acts of Domestic Terrorism by White Supremacists, We Recall the

Father Augustine Tolton, the first African-American Catholic priest who started life enslaved in the 19th century U.S. South, is on

Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of the enslavement of Africans in the United States. Dating back

By Toure @toure I think we should seriously consider a national holiday celebrating the life of a man who indelibly

by Gail Lyons Recently, on a frigid Buffalo wintry day, I ventured downtown to the Central Library’s African American Museum

There is an expression “It’s the American Way.” The idea is that you can do just about any nefarious thing

In 1619, “20. and odd Negroes” arrived off the coast of Virginia, where they were “bought for victualle” by labor-hungry

Nappy Corner by Althea Lipple of Hair To Go Natural Anne Pope-Turnbo Malone created a line of hair care “treatments.”