Not Your Momma's History

09/07/2026

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09/07/2026

Black Historical Interpreter Story Time- The Confession

05/12/2026

A Pinkster Picnic at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Pinkster is the oldest African American holiday. Pinkster is Dutch for the Christian celebration of Pentecost. Free and enslaved Black folks in NY, NJ, and PA region transformed it into a multiple day festival. They used this time to reconnect with their people and culture through music, dance and food, and it was celebrated well into the 19th century. Pinkster was also a time to self emancipate.

Black folks traveled from far and wide to congregate in public spaces in lower Manhattan for Pinkster. The Pinkster Stroll is to honor the journey made by these ancestors and to help community members reconnect with the stories of their ancestors. If you are interested in participating in the Pinkster Stroll this year on May 30, please go to the link in my linktree to fill out the form.

01/19/2026

Number 2- Georgia Gilmore and Sweet Potato Pie



Additional Reading
NYTimes article: Overlooked No More: Georgia Gilmore, Who Fed and Funded the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Klancy Miller

Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman
Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement by Premilla Nadasen

Montgomery Bus Boycott: Women Who Started It by Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, David J. Garrow

Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott By Dee Romito

Video credit
Interview with Georgia Gilmore in 1985, conducted by Blackside, Inc., for “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years (1954-1965).” Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection. Eyes on the Prize InterviewsImages from Montgomery Advertiser, AP Photo, and Library of Congress

07/04/2025

Video was taken at Camp Nelson National Monument massive recruitment and training center for United States Colored Troops and a refugee camp for their families. Additional filming at Camp Nelson National Cemetery, which was primarily a burial ground for Union soldiers during the Civil War, but also included employees who worked at Camp Nelson, and some civilian family members of USCT soldiers.

06/06/2025

Look what’s going to be in the NY Times style section this Sunday!

The Pinkster Stroll is not your average New York fashion show.

05/28/2025

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

04/30/2025

Horace Smith was extremely talented and a great friend. I really just need for y’all to know this man. Deepest condolences to his family.

02/21/2025

To my surprise at this year’s Forrest E. Mars Heritage Chocolate Society Meeting I was awarded along with Dontavius Williams, the inaugural Heroes of History award. We were also given $5000 each to go towards our work. Thank you American Heritage Chocolate, Mars Wrigley, and Ms. Jackie Mars. This is the first professional award I have received and I feel proud to have been selected. I encourage Mars Wrigley to continue to search out talented interpreters to support, highlight, and encourage through this award.

Interpreters depicted- Dontavius Williams, Willie and Hope Wright, Tonia Galban and her son, Ranger Steve, Harold Caldwell, Hugh Goffinet

01/15/2025

Thank you Ms. Tonya Hopkinsfor supporting me through that day at the hearth. Thank you to and the staff for lending us your hearth and providing support. Email [email protected]