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Villa Lewaro.
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The Mansion of America's First Black Female Self-Made Millionaire Gets a New Life

As a think tank for female entrepreneurs of color.
Evan Nicole Brown January 22, 2019
The Johnsons hired their longtime cook, Zephyr Wright, as presidential chef after feuding with her French predecessor.
food

When the President and His Chef Feuded Over Cold Beans

It was part of an “enduring rivalry” between African-American and French cooking in the White House.
Ryleigh Nucilli November 29, 2018
Idlewild circa 1955.
Idlewild, Michigan

Idlewild

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."
Montgomery, Alabama

National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.
The outside of the museum.
Savannah, Georgia

Pin Point Heritage Museum

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.
The barn at the Clemens Farmstead, where James and Sophia Clemens settled in 1818.
maps

The Forgotten Black Pioneers Who Settled the Midwest

Before the Civil War, free black settlements grew in the Northwest Territory.
Sarah Laskow June 14, 2018
Peanut pie at the Virginia Diner.
Gastro Obscura

Peanut Pie

The Virginia treat can “make even your deepest-dyed Yankee start complimenting you with a southern accent.”
FOONE.
Farmington, Connecticut

The Grave of Foone

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.
Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe after a victory for their major league team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, in 1949.
sports

1,400 Baby Chicks and the Integration of Professional Baseball

In 1946 in Nashua, New Hampshire, catcher Roy Campanella made history in more ways than one.
Ashawnta Jackson October 3, 2017
Allensworth
Earlimart, California

Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.
Chuck Berry House
St. Louis, Missouri

Chuck Berry's House

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.
Della Reese performing on her show in 1970.
television

Decades Before Oprah, Della Reese Was the First Black Woman to Host a Talk Show

The program was historic. But why are the archives lost?
Mayukh Sen August 22, 2016
Bergen Street entrance to the Williams' home, 1925-1968
Brooklyn, New York

Weeksville Heritage Center

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.