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The city of Newark is partnering with the NAACP and University of Delaware on a historic preservation project.They’ll be collecting oral history accounts…
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March’s History Matters featured an image of Estella’s Beauty Shop on Wilmington's East Side from 1939. Here in April, we focus on the man behind that…
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Dover’s Johnson Victrola Museum will be featuring some historic love songs in time for Valentine's Day.While the Victor Talking Machine Company – founded…
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A unique piece of Delaware’s African American history has been uncovered: the graves of five soldiers who served in the Union army's Colored Troops during…
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Gov. Jack Markell is celebrating Black History Month in his weekly message while remembering darker times in America’s history. Earlier this week, Markell…
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Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale told a packed room at Delaware State University Thursday how he became a civil rights activist.Seale's talk…
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In this month’s History Matters, produced in conjunction with the Delaware Historical Society, we dig into efforts to digitize the Freedmen's Bureau.…
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On the heels of the mass shooting that killed nine people at a historic black church in South Carolina, a Sussex County town is taking its own steps to…
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Delaware is home to a fair share of small towns and villages. Delaware Public Media contributor Larry Nagengast examines how they survive and thrive…
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In this month’s History Matters, we examine a University of Delaware interdisciplinary academic project called Colored Conventions.It's an effort to…