Category Archives: history

AAPI History Month: Japanese Internment

In the Magic Valley of southern Idaho, there is a wide open stretch of land...

AAPI History Month: Building the Railroad

Along Interstate 80 in Gold Run, California, there is a rest stop. Travelers walk around...

Fannie Lou Hamer: IWD 2023

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the youngest of 20 children. After reaching the...

Black History Month 2023: Afrofuturism

Born in 1947, Octavia Butler was a Black author renowned for her science fiction novels...

The Way Oppression Rhymes

We have long known that there are both connections and divisions between the Jewish and...

Black History Month 2023: Memphis, TN

Hickory Hill is a residential neighborhood in Southwest Memphis. This community contains middle class houses...

Black History Month 2023: Montgomery, AL

Montgomery was incorporated in 1819 and is the capital of Alabama. Often referred to as...

Black History Begins in Africa

Black history begins in Africa. All human history begins in Africa. Nubia is a region...

Juneteenth: Dreams for Future Generations

On June 19th, we celebrate the 157th anniversary of the last enslaved peoples learning of...

Civil rights advocate and friend of the Pilgrimage, Dr. Reavis Mitchell, passes at 72.

One of Nashville’s most well-known historians, and a longtime administrator at Fisk University, has died...