Presented by Dionne Patterson Cinderella was the wife of Abraham Brogden, a freedman who worked at plantation nearby to Belvior where Cinderella was enslaved. In December 1848, when Abraham learned…
Presented by Katie Wu and Louis P. Nelson In a moment shaped by historic national polarization and disembodied lives spent increasingly online, this book argues that historic sites — including…
Presented by Susan Stessin-Cohn and Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini Co-authored by Susan Stessin-Cohn, with Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini, Philip White and Albert Cook, the 34 historical sketches in this book present insights into the…
Presented by Tom Weiner and Dr. Amilcar Shabazz This book brings to light the often-suppressed stories of those who risked everything to end enslavement. Profiling 20 Black and white men…
Presented by Susan Stessin-Cohn and Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini In Defiance documents 607 fugitives from enslavement in the 18th and 19th-century Hudson River Valley region of New York State through the reproduction…
Presented by Debra Bruno A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family is a story of a nearly forgotten New York history. When author…
Presented by by Marcus Kwame Anderson and David Walker Working collaboratively with David F. Walker, an award-winning comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator, Marcus Anderson and David Walker created…
Presented by Carol Durant Carol Durant is poet, playwright, actor, stage manager and founder, curator and host of Outliers Poetry Brunch. Carol was a featured poet at the 13th Annual…
Black Dimensions in Art organized and gathered creatives of the African diaspora to recreate the iconic 1958 photo “A Great Day in Harlem.” The group has been celebrating and supporting black artists for nearly 50 years and organized the recreated photo at the Stephen and Harriet Myers residence in Arbor Hill.
