Breakdancing at the Olympic Games
2024
See an example of breakdancing in performance at the Paris summer games.
“African Americans Going South, 1995–2000”
by Michael Siegel and Rutgers Cartography
Visualize a phase of Black migration at the end of the twentieth century.
“African American Population in Selected Cities, 1900–1920”
by Michael Siegel and Rutgers Cartography
Visualize some of the impact of the first wave of the Great Migration.
Beyond the Battlefield: African American Contributions to the Civil War
with Elizabeth R. Varon
Learn more about the men, women, and children who contributed to the war effort through various means.
Naturally ’68 at the Apollo Theater
ca. 1968
View a photograph from a key convergence of artists and models amid the Black is Beautiful movement.
The Discovery of the Americas and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
by Ira Berlin
Explore the origins of the transatlantic slave trade and the plantation system.
“I Too”: Langston Hughes’s Afro-Whitmanian Affirmation
by Steven Tracy
Explore Hughes' "I, Too" poem, its connection to Walt Whitman, and its role in affirming Black identity in America.
Clarksdale: Myth, Music, and Mercy in the Mississippi Delta
by Shelley Ritter
Read about musician Muddy Waters, the blues, and the historical exhibits at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Robert Johnson and the Rise of the Blues
by Elijah Wald
Read about Robert Johnson and the rise and evolution of blues music.
Jackie Robinson
with Jason Butler, Taína Quiñones, and Sandra Trenholm
Explore a comic book about Jackie Robinson’s rookie year and letters written by Richard Nixon and Robert Kennedy to Jackie Robinson about the Civil Rights Movement.
The Life and Work of Phillis Wheatley
with Krystal Mackie, Jeanette Providence, and Sandra Trenholm
Discover the eighteenth-century poet who was enslaved, became free, and built a lasting legacy.
The Union Army and Juneteenth
1865
Learn more about the origins of Juneteenth through this print.
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