Lisa Elmaleh Which brings us back to Robert Smalls’ assertion of 53,000 African-Americans murdered. Unhappily, little survives of his personal papers, so they don’t provide much help in ...

Jonathan W. White - Author, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House Before dawn on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls stealthily took command of a Confederate ...

A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War is slated to stand outside of the visitor’s entrance of the State House. The Robert Smalls ...

Discover the deep history and connection between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Penn Center, a former school for ...

The Gaillard is in the process of applying for NEA funding for the play “Finding Freedom: The Journey of Robert Smalls,” which ... of the International African American Museum, which mostly ...

As he does one day each month, the Rev. Robert Turner hit the road from ... his long day’s journey — the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Turner knelt in prayer and ...

Kevin Young, who has led the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021, went on leave before the president criticized the institution in an executive order. By Graham ...