How to Use This Book and Its Digital Companions: Approaches to and Afterlives of the Colored Conventions / Jim Casey, P. Gabrielle Foreman, and Sarah Lynn Patterson -- Critical Conventions, Methods, ...

The documented proceedings of a colored convention held right here in Delaware. Most of the general knowledge of 19th-century African-American reform movement gravitates toward the major events we ...

A professor at Penn State University who documented the “unremembered history” of Black political organizing is one of this year’s 25 MacArthur fellows, a select group of scholars who receive $800,000 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia Mural Arts is unveiling a new project. On Monday morning, they announced that they teamed up with The Colored Conventions Project at Penn State. The initiative ...

Penn State University Professor, P. Gabrielle Foreman, is among this year’s 25 MacArthur Fellows for her dedication to ensuring “unremembered” Black history. The co-director of Penn’s Center for Black ...

A private parking lot was the former site of the Liberty Street Presbyterian Church in Troy. In 1847, the church hosted Black leaders from all across the country, including Frederick Douglas, for the ...

In a recent episode of Hard Knock Radio, former Black Panther Tureka Lewis and actor-director Mario Van Peebles engaged in a compelling dialogue about the legacy and representation of the Black ...

If you were a free Black person moving through the antebellum United States, at least in theory, you faced a handful of stark options: Settle in a slaveholding Southern state, venture out into the ...