Page 11 - Colored Troops News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Florida Rep. Geraldine Thompson says society must learn and be taught more than just the basics of Black history.

“The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship,” by Deborah Willis, delivers much more than the formal, carefully posed photographs of men in uniforms and their heartfelt letters home and to the world.

February is Black History Month, it’s something that no American of any race, color, or creed should forget. African Americans, the decendants of slaves and slaves themselves fought for freedom that was only at best was in the promissory note of the Emancipation Proclamation. Those men, and women in the case of Harriett Tubman and Sojourner Truth, paved the way for freedom for African Americans and all others who benefited from what they fought for: women, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and other Hispanics, Asian Americans, and LGBTQ Americans. That promise being made then, must be...

New walking tour and film explores NYC's 1863 race riots by Kamau Ware Kamau Ware leading group tour for Fighting Dark. Photo: Elliott Ashby. NEW YORK, NY .-The Shed presents Fighting Dark, a new audio tour and film by artist and storyteller Kamau Ware (Founder, Black Gotham Experience). This two-part project features an online audio tour and a short film that explores Manhattan and Brooklyn’s 19th-century history of racial violence and resilience. Fighting Dark is commissioned in conjunction with Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water, an exhibition currently on view at The Shed, and connects t...

EASTVILLE, Va. (Tribune News Service) — That  Arthur T. Carter is spearheading an effort to build this Civil War monument sounds about right. Especially when folks consider his lineage. His grandfather was born enslaved in  Eastville, the seat of  African American and white Union soldiers in its historic square. So many remembrances, particularly in  Virginia, are typically one or the other. His grandfather fought for the Union’s Colored Troops, survived one of the war’s most notorious battles, and later befriended the Confederate general who tried to slaughter his unit.  Pete...