AAHGS of Charlotte

07/19/2025

Here's a Google photo album from our Social Gathering Cookout today.❤️

We were so happy the weather turned out much better than expected under the shelter. All bellies we filled. It was a good time of fun, sharing & fellowship.Thanks for everyone's hard work. ❤️

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07/07/2025

You’ve heard about one declaration of independence—Jefferson’s. But the real declarations weren’t written. They were lived.

Between 1775 and 1783, tens of thousands of enslaved Black people took action. They ran toward British lines, pushed Dunmore beyond his limits, turned Clinton’s Philipsburg Proclamation into a weapon, and forced a second war into existence: a war for Black liberty. And the result? New Black communities across the Atlantic world—free people living by their own terms, in places like Nova Scotia, the Bahamas, and Sierra Leone.

And that’s what Independence really looked like.

You’ve heard about one declaration of independence—Jefferson’s. But the real declarations weren’t written. They were lived.Between 1775 and 1783, tens of tho...

05/31/2025

Congratulations - 'Roots Recovered: Reclaiming Our Names - s Edward R. Murrow award

Renate Yarborough-Sanders

Original Air Date: 2/23/24"Roots Recovered: Reclaiming Our Names" is a documentary from 13News Now that explores the growing interest African Americans have ...

05/30/2025

https://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/black-history/after-a-15-year-battle-harvard-agrees-in-settlement-to-relinquish-early-photos-of-slaves-southcarolina-international-african-american-museum/101-dcd04010-bb5e-462c-ae72-a4536c79bfc0

Photos will be transferred from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina

05/26/2025

In temperance of all our heroes - We honor & salute you this Memorial day ❤️

Memorial Day's origins start in the years following the Civil War, founded by an army, but maybe not the one you'd expect. more Ame...

05/20/2025

Fundraiser for the Kirkpatrick Foundation

VisArt Video

3104 Eastway Drive

May 22 or May 23 (you choose)

7:00 – 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:00)

The documentary, A Binding Truth, will be shown followed by a Q&A

Food, beer and wine available for purchase at the VisArt café so come early

No fee for admission but a donation to the Foundation is appreciated

RSVP to Ellen Holliday, [email protected]

Jimmie and De, along with Mickey Aberman and the staff of VisArt Video (a 501 (c)(3), will host two separate fundraising events for the Kirkpatrick Foundation in the theater at VisArt. We will show the 90-minute documentary, A Binding Truth, followed by a Q&A with Jimmie and De. Use this link to learn more about the documentary, https://www.whirlygigproductions.com/a-binding-truth-film-trailer. Please RSVP your preferred date and number of people attending with you to the email above.

No donation is required and admission is free, but we do hope you will consider making a tax-deductible donation. Credit cards, cash and checks (made payable to The Kirkpatrick Foundation) will be gladly accepted.

https://www.whirlygigproductions.com/a-binding-truth-film-trailer

Two former high school classmates, one black and one white, explore a complicated familial history in director Louise Woehrle’s incredible documentary, A Binding Truth. What initially started out as a sports biopic about the regional football superstar Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick gracefully morphs into...

04/24/2025

We all should support this effort! Black History is American History!

Join me and others..... https://support.si.edu/site/Donation2;jsessionid=00000000.app30067a?idb=0&df_id=17302&mfc_pref=T&17302.donation=form1&s_src=H0000AW&s_subsrc=H0000AW&NONCE_TOKEN=642E0BBD9A1EAD021FD9B971C0066046

https://apnews.com/article/smithsonian-african-american-museum-black-churches-trump-93cb4969ecc77836b36e7083980d9e29

Some Black churches are pledging to support the National Museum of African American History and Culture following an executive order by President Donald Trump alleging exhibits there and at other Smithsonian Institution sites have expressed a “divisive, race-centered ideology.”

04/16/2025

It's in the DNA y'all 😂

03/26/2025

02/19/2025

A Black History moment...
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01/26/2025

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01/21/2025

I'm Black But Look White. Here Are The Horrible Things White People Feel Safe Telling Me. | HuffPost

"Many of these people are educated, and hold jobs or positions that give them some form of power or influence over Black people."