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Maryland Church Works to Restore Graves of Enslaved People
The Archdiocese of Washington is working to restore the graves of nearly 200 African Americans buried behind a church in Bowie, Maryland. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.
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Maryland Church Works to Restore Graves of Enslaved People
Orange flags rise up like wildflowers from the ground of the old cemetery behind the Sacred Heart Church in Bowie, Maryland. Each of them marks a grave, or the likely spot of a grave. Some graves are denoted by weathered stone markers. But others received no gravestone or marker, a fate common for enslaved people. “Burials that are in wooded…
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Genealogy Project Focuses on Fredericksburg's Oldest Black Families
The ancestral roots of the ten oldest African American families in Fredericksburg, Virginia, were revealed Friday as part of a project created to recognize the city’s Black residents. News4’s Julie Carey reports.
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Inside the Greenwood Project's Mission to Create a More Diverse Wall Street
Greenwood Project works with companies including Charles Schwab and Morgan Stanley to offer Black and Latino students access to careers in financial services.
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The Stanford PhD Student With a Mission to Graduate 10,000 Black Engineers by 2025
Favour Nerrise of the National Society of Black Engineers is dedicated to seeing 10,000 Black engineers graduate annually by 2025.
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Black Business Leaders: How We Make Capitalism Work for Everyone Equally
African American business leaders on what it will take to make capitalism work equally for everyone.
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Black Business Leaders: How to Build Wealth and Career Success
To help younger generations achieve success, several Black leaders from academia, business and finance recently shared their vision for the future with CNBC.
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Op-Ed: First-Generation Black Wealth Builders Must Embrace Their Success and Put Themselves First
First-generation Black wealth builders have to make sure they’re taking care of themselves financially before reaching out to help the wider Black community.
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Black Business Leaders: Advice for the Next Generation on Overcoming Racial and Economic Inequity
Lessons on success, confidence and overcoming discrimination from Black leaders in business and the markets.
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Faces of Change: How the Greenwood Project Is Removing Barriers to Careers in Finance
Elois and Bevon Joseph’s organization works with firms including Morgan Stanley and Schwab to offer minority students career pathways in financial services.
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Faces of Change: In Covid Crisis, a New Generation of Community Leaders Echoes Martin Luther King's Wisdom
Martin Luther King said whatever affects one, affects all. The Covid crisis makes this clear in new ways, as a new generation of Black community leaders rises.
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Smithsonian's African American History Museum Debuts New Exhibit
A new exhibit featuring artifacts and history from the mid-19th century opens Friday at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), marking the museum’s fifth anniversary. “Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies” explores the African American experience in the decades directly following the Civil War during the time known as the Reconstruction era. ...
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Hate Crimes Against Asian and Black People Rise Sharply in the U.S., FBI Says
The number of reported hate crimes nationwide against Asian and Black people sharply increased in 2020, according to new FBI data released Monday.
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Historic African American Gravestones Once Dumped in Potomac River Relocated
Dozens of African American headstones taken from a D.C. gravesite and dumped along the Potomac River will be restored and relocated. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.
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