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… Williams, Rhaisa Kameela . “ Toward a Theorization of Black Maternal Grief as Analytic.”  Journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists . Volume 24, Issue 1. April 2016.    … Gross, Kali Nicole. “How Do Mothers of Slain, Unarmed Black Daughters Grieve?”  Huffington Post . December, 2014. …

… the first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African …

… Germans, Italians, Polish and, of course, Irish and one black, a blacksmith. We never communicated with the blacks; … away. My mother recounted for me her first time seeing a black person in Boston. She was fascinated. I went to Boston … Latin school and took Greek and Latin. There were two black kids there. They were the brightest kids I ever saw. …

… School in Philadelphia in 1958, and was the school’s first black student and graduate. She earned a bachelor’s degree …

… where the Mill River meets the Quinnipiac. More than 1,000 Black men stood before him, gathered in front of a large … Frederick Douglass had come to address Connecticut’s first Black regiment in the Civil War. As  Juneteenth  approaches, … people joined the encampment that they formed a second Black regiment, the 30th C.V. But despite the speed with …

… of people missing from the history books, the stories of black women and girls. We met soon afterwards at a teacher’s … been a year since I invited Joe to speak at the National Black Storytelling Festival and Conference which was hosted by the  Rhode Island Black Storytellers  (aka, RIBS). Joe had no idea then how …