The town of Kimball was once home to the nation’s largest privately owned African American hospital. After taking over a different hospital in Kimball, Dr. Henry Dismukes was tasked with building an ...
The Thankful Heritage Museum is a nonprofit that has traveled all over North Carolina for 31 years, sharing Black history and culture through its mobile museum displays. Right now, it has a unique ...
“The children of negro spirituals got to be the blues and then came jazz and R&B, and all of them used what was developed in the spiritual which was improvisation,” Jones said. The beats and melodies ...
Gabriel Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church can trace its roots back to 1866. It was built by freed Black families in Cuffeytown, the oldest self-sustaining African American community in Virginia.