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Piecing together the lives of formerly enslaved people
When Michaela Day went to elementary school in the late 1980s, she saw a few…
Adria CarpenterMarch 7, 2024
Meet the new curator of the Givens Collection of African American Literature
It started with “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” the first book Davu Seru read cover-to-cover,…
Adria CarpenterSeptember 7, 2023
Avenues to Black history
What began in the early part of the 20th century as a week dedicated to…
markengeFebruary 4, 2021
Racism, directly experienced
Of all of the things that this time is — ”unprecedented,” heartbreaking, revealing, painful —…
Mark EngebretsonJune 10, 2020
Umbra: Search African American History brings together over 400,000 digitally available items that document African…
Mark EngebretsonJanuary 9, 2016
Help improve ‘Umbra: Search African American History’
Over 350,000 objects documenting more than 300 years of African American history and culture are…
Mark EngebretsonJune 11, 2015
Givens Exhibition at Hennepin County and on Cities97
The Givens Collection of African American Literature celebrates Black History Month with "Bibliophilia: Collecting…
Mark EngebretsonFebruary 19, 2013