The past 25 years have witnessed an unprecedented flowering of African American cinema, with filmmakers creating works that transcend entertainment to become cultural phenomena and artistic landmarks.

Cover title: The Negro in American film, 1900-1942. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!89044~!0#focus ...

This is a still from the recently released documentary "Trailblazers of Faith: The Legacy of African American Catholics" from the Black and Indian Mission Office in Washington. It tells the story of ...

Gertrude Dorsey left to teach school in Sutton, West Virginia, in 1897, but by the 1900 census, she was living in Newark, on Buckingham Street, with her sister Dora and brother-in-law Daniel Guy. Her ...