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Nashville, Tennessee

Silver Sands Cafe

Serving the epitome of soul food for more than seven decades.
Museum entrance
Seattle, Washington

Northwest African American Museum

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.
The practice field looking toward home plate from left field
Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta Black Crackers Practice Field

One of the only remaining vestiges of baseball's Negro Leagues in Atlanta.
Aerial photo of 1440 Forest Avenue
Staten Island, New York

Site of the Cherry Lane Cemetery

How did a historical Black burial ground become a Staten Island strip mall?
All illustrations: John Mata for Atlas Obscura
military history

Puzzle Monday: War Heroes Crossword

AO Puzzles May 1, 2023
The aluminum time capsule was buried under Freedom Plaza in 1988.
Washington, D.C.

MLK Time Capsule at Freedom Plaza

Beneath unsuspecting visitors feet, a capsule containing pieces of America’s civil rights history.
<em>There is a Future</em>, 2020
collections

Reclaiming Georgia's Stone Mountain Through Haunting Landscape Images

Photographer Sheila Pree Bright wanted to find a new way of seeing the site and its connection to centuries of racism.
Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing April 21, 2023
black history

Podcast: John Brown’s Farm

A monument to a famed abolitionist and the fight for Black suffrage.
The Podcast Team April 20, 2023
bookstores

Podcast: For Keeps Books

The place to find rare and classic books by Black authors.
The Podcast Team April 19, 2023
One of the 2.000 mummified ram heads found in the Temple of Ramses II, in the historical city of Abydos, Egypt.
cemeteries

Wonder Is Everywhere: 2,000 Ram Skulls, a Cold War Mystery, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
April White April 14, 2023
houses

Podcast: Ashley House

A history that intertwines the American Revolution with the seeds of abolition in the North.
The Podcast Team April 11, 2023
Wells'Built Museum
Orlando, Florida

Wells'Built Museum

During segregation, this Orlando hotel hosted performers like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Now it's a museum dedicated to preserving local Black history.
Together these artifacts formed a spiritual bundle to protect a home from bad spirits and negative energy.
archaeology

Beneath an Old Fireplace, Evidence of the Spirituality of the Enslaved

The finds are also enriching understanding of the formative years of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing March 21, 2023
This colossal freedom statue stands in front of Nigeria's Badagry Heritage Museum in Lagos State. Badgery, a small town near Nigeria's border with Benin, was the site of a large slave port.
ships

The Untold Stories of the Women Who Led Slave Revolts

Their inspiring acts of resistance were ignored or erased for centuries—until now.
Sarah Durn March 9, 2023
Edwin P. Goodwin House
Washington, D.C.

Edwin P. Goodwin House

This house was once the location of Frelinghuysen University.
Plymouth, England

Jack Leslie Statue

A statue of a pioneering Black footballer outside his former home stadium.
Major Taylor Monument
Worcester, Massachusetts

Major Taylor Monument

Dedicated to one of the world's first Black international, athletic superstars.
restaurants

Podcast: Big Apple Inn

A humble hole-in-the-wall with a serious civil rights history.
The Podcast Team March 6, 2023