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How The HistoryMakers strives to share the African-American experience
This weekend, many PBS stations will air “An Evening with Ken Chenault,” a special about the man who was chairman and CEO of American Express for 17 years. It was created by The HistoryMakers, a Chicago-based oral history project collecting…
I dig through archives to unearth hidden stories from African-American history
The Slave Societies Digital Archive has documented the lives of approximately 6 million free and enslaved Africans, their descendants, and the indigenous, European and Asian people with whom they interacted.
This sorghum-brined chicken recipe is a lesson in African-American history
In his new book "The Cooking Gene," historian Michael W. Twitty traces the culinary roots of the South.
Full interview: Lonnie Bunch, director of Smithsonian African American History Museum
Watch our full report on the opening of the museum tonight on PBS NewsHour.
In depicting American slavery, Hollywood has long left some of the most brutal realities largely unseen. But the filmmakers behind "12 Years a Slave" tried not to flinch in showing the full system of human subjugation. Jeffrey Brown talks to…
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