Black History

Updated March 13 with revised event detailsIn light of the recent developments concerning the coronavirus (COVID-19), the Pulitzer announced that they are…

The town of Alton was a major stop for escaped slaves making their way to freedom from St. Louis.Some runaways stayed in Alton, and some continued north…

This year is full of political commemorations: the presidential election, the centennial of the 19th Amendment and the culmination of the women’s suffrage…

Established in 1920, Washington Park Cemetery in Berkeley served as a for-profit burial place for African Americans. Before it stopped operating in the…

There’s good reason the U.S. Treasury Department selected Harriet Tubman as the new face of its $20 bill. Tubman lived one of the nation’s most remarkable…

After visiting Point Comfort — present-day Hampton, Virginia — a few weeks ago, Anthony Ross, director of the St. Louis chapter of Remember the 400, said…

Five years after a white Ferguson police officer shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black man, there is no permanent, local display of the art…

For two decades, Lois Conley, founder of St. Louis’ Griot Museum of Black History, has struggled just to pay the bills, hoping the roof, heating and air…

In 1888, a young, African-American woman left Louisiana to join her brothers in St. Louis.The future Madam C.J. Walker earned a living by doing laundry,…

St. Louis is known for its elaborate Fourth of July events, with fireworks bursting in dozens of municipalities and most famously, over the Arch.But many…