Liberate History

06/20/2025

An enslaved African steals a Confederate ship, sails past 4 naval checkpoints to freedom, lives to tell his story, convinces Abraham Lincoln to let his people join the Union army to fight for their freedom, publishes a newspaper, and is elected to Congress! He's a bad mother...shut yo mouf! Buy the graphic novel now! Released on Juneteenth!

02/12/2024

Happy Black History Month!

The founders of Black American museums in the post-World War II era were all shaped by Carter G. Woodson’s “Negro Canon” of history and art.

02/05/2024

Happy Black History Month!

https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/meet-robert-rice-the-man-who-saved-important-black-history-in-dayton-for-future-generations/TSXDZJ3JLZEMXOOLXBESEEO3GU/

11/16/2023

70,000 Lexington digital records, including enslavement documents:

The Digital Access Project is a collaboration between the city and the University of Kentucky which took thousands of Lexington’s earliest records, including slave and land records, and made them available online.

10/11/2023

Great piece narrating the significance of the AP course on African American History!

AP African American Studies has drawn fire from some Republicans calling it "indoctrination" and a "propaganda leftist agenda." Students tell CBS News the co...

09/11/2023

International Underground Railroad Month

The Chicago Tribune Underground Railroad series puts a spotlight on Illinois journeys of freedom seekers.

08/21/2023

Florida is fighting back!

"Travails and Triumphs" opened in June and is the history center's first new permanent exhibit in five years.

08/06/2023

https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-million-names-project-aims-recover-hidden-history/story?id=101951848 =From%20%251%24s&aoh=16912544532887&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FUS%2F10-million-names-project-aims-recover-hidden-history%2Fstory%3Fid%3D101951848

07/22/2023

Just presented "Rhymefest: A Cultural Criterion for Hip Hop" at the 6th Annual Teach Black History Conference in Buffalo NY! Thank you Dr. LaGarrett King for your leadership in Black History research!

06/17/2023

Happy Juneteenth! "It’s impacted millions of people because slavery is still very much legal as criminal punishment... There is no circumstance under which it is OK to enslave someone,”

A group of Democratic lawmakers has reintroduced a joint resolution to negate a clause in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution that permits slavery or involuntary servitude “as a punishment for crime.”

06/15/2023

Derrick Bell pointed out that the legal system in the US was shaped by pervasive oppression of enslaved Africans! "The Citing Slavery Project, a comprehensive online database (and map) of slave cases and the modern cases that cite them as precedent. "

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/14/1181834798/slave-cases-precedent-us-legal-system

06/11/2023

The Truth Behind Juneteenth...

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/real-history-of-juneteenth-messier/