Black History

400 years ago, slavery officially began in America. It started with the sale of 20 humans in Virginia. According to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade…

Quilts traditionally provide warmth and comfort. Story quilts link these qualities with history, and there are quilts right now in Wilberforce that tell…

North High Street between Broad and Gay streets was ceremonially renamed "Rosa Parks Way" on Monday morning.Mayor Andrew Ginther, U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty…

Black History Month started as Negro History Week in 1926.The idea was to highlight African American achievements throughout American history. But the…

Four hundred years ago this year, the first African people were taken from their homelands and brought to colonial America – thus instituting slavery in…

There's a new website aimed at collecting personal stories and telling the history of the region's African American community.