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Historic Event

The Water Spirit Will Take Us Home

    Africa & the Diaspora

    Art

    Literature

    Slavery

    Slavery & Abolition, 1800-1860

Photograph of Boat in the Marshes of St. Simon’s Island
They could fly, they could fly
They could slip the bonds of earth and rise so high
They could fly across the ocean
Together, hand in hand
Searching, always searching for the promised land.

Rhiannon Giddens, We Could Fly, 2017

Cover image of "Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South"
Biography

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

    Literature

Three quarter length oil painting portrait of a woman with closely cropped hair holding a teacup and saucer decorated.  She is dressed in a high necked red blouse with a yellow scarf. She also wears a black and white stiped pants.
Historic Event

The Power of a Portrait

    Art

Black and white photograph of Etta Moten Barnett and another woman examining a large map of Africa hanging on the wall. Wearing a long sleeved white blouse with a brooch at the neckline and a grey straight skirt, Etta Moten Barnett stands to the side of the map and points to the country of Liberia with her right arm outstretched. The woman standing next to her wears a light grey dress with double breasted black button up the front and a black belt.
Biography

Etta Moten Barnett

    Africa & the Diaspora