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Employee Affinity Group Exploring records relating to African Americans with the Say It Loud! Employee Affinity Group Rediscovering Black History Menu About Rediscovering Black History About the Bloggers Policies Tribute to Faith Ringgold April 19, 2024 April 19, 2024 by Ligon , posted in Arts , Black Women , Tribute/News I don’t think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have to feel good about who you are and that you could do something to change things.” ~ Faith Ringgold RG 86 Commemorative Poster - 75th Anniversary of the Women’s Bureau (NAID 325597766) On … Continue reading Tribute to Faith Ringgold Tagged African Americans and the Arts , Faith Ringgold , RG 517 , RG 79 , RG 86 , Tina L. Ligon Leave a comment The FBI’s Brief Investigation on Audre Lorde April 10, 2024 April 9, 2024 by ncurrie , posted in Black Power , Black Women Today’s post was written by Christina Violeta Jones, Archivist with the Special Access and FOIA Program at the National Archives at College Park, MD "For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language, by which we speak it." -Audre … Continue reading The FBI’s Brief Investigation on Audre Lorde Tagged Audre Lourde , Christina Violeta Jones , FBI , feminism , RG 65 Leave a comment Tribute to Louis Gossett, Jr. April 1, 2024 April 1, 2024 by Ligon , posted in Tribute/News We are born with freedom and hope, but often that’s dashed because of our color. But in school, I’d already been taught that no one could tell me that you can’t do something because you’re black.” ~ Louis Gossett, Jr. On March 29, 2024, Louis Gossett, Jr. passed away at 87 years old. He was … Continue reading Tribute to Louis Gossett, Jr. Tagged Book of Negroes , Louis Gossett Jr. , RG 330 , RG 70 , RR-WHTV , Tina L. Ligon Leave a comment Happy Birthday Augusta Savage! February 29, 2024 February 29, 2024 by Ligon , posted in Black Women , Great Migration , Tribute/News I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.” ~ Augusta Savage Collection H: Photograph of Augusta Savage (NAID 559182) Augusta Christine Fells Savage was born on February 29, 1892, in … Continue reading Happy Birthday Augusta Savage! Tagged African Americans and the Arts , Augusta Savage , Harlem Renaissance , Harmon Foundation , RG 79 , Tina L. Ligon Leave a comment Carter G. Woodson The Father of Black History and Black History Month February 28, 2024 February 29, 2024 by ncurrie , posted in Tribute/News Today’s post was written by M. Marie Maxwell, archivist in the Special Access and FOIA Program at the National Archives in College Park. It’s February, which means it is Black History Month. Do you know why we have a Black History Month? Because it started out as Negro History Week. And who started that? Dr. … Continue reading Carter G. Woodson The Father of Black History and Black History Month Tagged ASALH , Black History Month 2024 , Carter G. Woodson , M. Marie Maxwell , National Park Service Leave a comment Happy Birthday Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois! February 23, 2024 February 23, 2024 by Ligon , posted in Civil Rights , Tribute/News It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness… one ever feels his two-ness, an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two un-reconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” ~ W. E. B. Du Bois RG 79 "W.E.B. Dubois photo from NAACP Collection" … Continue reading Happy Birthday Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois! Tagged Alpha Phi Alpha , Fisk University , NAACP , Pan-Africanism , RG 79 , Sigma Pi Phi , Tina L. Ligon , W. E. B. Du Bois Leave a comment Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass! February 14, 2024 February 14, 2024 by Ligon , posted in Anniversary , Blacks in Government , Civil Rights , Emancipation & Reconstruction , Slavery and the Slave Trade , Tribute/News Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” ~Frederick Douglass RG 79 "Fred. Douglass, lawyer, ca. 1865" Washington, DC SP Douglass, Frederick, National Historic … Continue reading Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass! Tagged Alpha Phi Alpha , Frederick Douglass , RG 306 , RG 59 , RG 79 , RG 94 , Tina L. Ligon Leave a comment Envision the Razing of All These Structures”: Evidence of Forced Displacement and Dispossession February 7, 2024 February 7, 2024 by ncurrie , posted in Civil Rights , Civil Rights Protest & Issues Today’s post was written by Jack Del Nunzio, archivist in Digitization Archival Services at the National Archives at College Park. Content Warning: This post contains disturbing images and descriptions of anti-Black violence. Have you ever wondered about the origins of recreation facilities, public roads, school systems, utilities, and housing in your hometown? In all likelihood, … Continue reading Envision the Razing of All These Structures”: Evidence of Forced Displacement and Dispossession Tagged discplacement , Georgetown MD , housing discrimination , Jack Del Nunzio , RG 207 , Salisbury MD , urban renewal Leave a comment Happy Birthday Langston Hughes! February 1, 2024 January 31, 2024 by Ligon , posted in Civil Rights , Great Migration , Tribute/News , World War I Era What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? ~"Harlem" by Langston Hughes … Continue reading Happy Birthday Langston Hughes! Tagged African Americans and the Arts , Black History Month 2024 , Harlem Renaissance , Langston Hughes , Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) , Omega Psi Phi , RG 306 , RG 517 , Tina L. Ligon Leave a comment To the Hip Hop and You don’t Stop”: A Tribute for the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop August 11, 2023 August 15, 2023 by ncurrie , posted in Anniversary , Black Power , Personal Experience Cover photo: A Great Day in Hip Hop, Harlem, New York, by Gordon Parks, 1998 This year, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of Hip Hop. Rap, a genre of popular music rooted in funk, disco, and soul that encompasses the cultures of Black and Brown people is one part of Hip Hop … Continue reading To the Hip Hop and You don’t Stop”: A Tribute for the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop Tagged Barack Obama Presidential Library , Hip Hop , Music , RG 21 , RG 412 , RG 441 , Tina L. 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