Finding Pomp Russell: how an almanac, a friend's family story, and a Revolutionary War stone led me to find Pomp Russell, and his relationship to his white family, some of the earliest anti-slavery leaders in rural Maine

Black Burial in Boston, In Life as In Death

The North End Black History Trail Project

Egypt Lloyd will speak at the Genealogical Forum of Oregon’s African American SIG virtual meeting.

Author of Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in New England

Author of Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War

Worcester, Art, and Telling the Whole History

Associate Professor of History, Director of Undergraduate Studies at Brown University and author of Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

Founding Member of the Cambridge African American Heritage Trail

Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative: Progress to Date and the Year Ahead

We'd Done the Research.... what happened next: conundrums of public education & restorative justice

Author Margaret Newell with Egypt Lloyd. Award-winning historian Margaret Newell tells the stories of Native and Black people escaping slavery, and the people who helped them.

From Suffrage to Civil Rights: The Enduring Legacy of the League of Women for Community Service

Join us for our conference session, Advancing Inclusive Narratives: Insights on Interpreting Enslavement and Freedom, featuring Kayla Coleman, Naomi Gordon, Alex Goutier, Scarlett Hoey, Lauren McCormack, and Marieke Van Damme.

Dr. Shelley Viola Murphy is a genealogist and currently works for the University of Virginia as the Descendant Project researcher where she spearheads the study of the enslaved laborers who laid the university's foundational stones.

Hosted by The Slave Legacy History Coalition and the New England Museum Association (NEMA - Explore Historic Deerfield and the exhibit Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North .JUNE 22, Cost: $100 Includes admission fees, lunch at historic Deerfield.

Naomi Gordon has been selected by the Massachusetts History Alliance (MHA) Rising Star Award. Naomi has distinguished herself as an outstanding rising leader in building innovative partnerships to increase community engagement with Massachusetts’ Black history.

Mimi Pichey, Hidden Jamaica Plain, "Slavery in Jamaica Plain"