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1+ week, 1+ day ago   (291+ words) Network Norfolk The current building Norwich Quakers use for their meetings for worship - and much more - is 200 years old this year. There is an exhibition and events during Heritage Week to celebrate the anniversary. The Meeting House on Upper Goat…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (357+ words) Norfolk Botanical Garden has unveiled a memorial to the roughly 200 Black laborers who built it in 1938 under segregation, when they were barred from visiting. In 1938, roughly 200 African American laborers waded into a mosquito-ridden cypress swamp outside Norfolk, Virginia, and with…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (340+ words) More than four centuries later, the legacy of those first Africans extends far beyond slavery into the culture, struggles and identity of Black America, and America, as a whole. August 25 marks the anniversary of the 1619 arrival of the first documented…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (144+ words) On this edition of Your Call, historian Dr. Blair LM Kelley discusses her new book, Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days. For over 150 years, Black communities have gathered to honor freedom, resilience, and the ongoing struggle…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (464+ words) Today, August 23, the world observes the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, a global moment to honour those who resisted enslavement rather than simply endured it. No parish in Jamaica embodies that spirit of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (239+ words) Keys Weekly Newspapers Key West will commemorate the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition with events on Sunday, Aug. 23 at William Weech American Legion, 803 Emma St., and at the Key West African Cemetery at…...