History isn't just found in museums and archives. Sometimes, it's tucked away in family photo albums, newspaper clippings, or stories passed down from one generation to the next. The Jalen Law Collection and the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor are inviting the community to help preserve Buffalo's Black history by contributing photographs, memories, documents, and other historical materials for a new digital public history project exploring sites once feat

Kelly Elaine Navies, Museum Specialist in Oral History at the National Museum of African American History and Culture will offer a workshop on designing and implementing a community and Family oral history workshop from start to finish. The Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal created by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Community members will learn how to research their ancestors in the Freedmen’s Bureau records and be able to conduct searc

Join the National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) and Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor (MSAAHC) at the signature social justice program "A Seat at the Table" for more information visit https://nmaahc.si.edu/events/seat-table-0

BUFFALO, NY – Black history matters, and the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for the Digitization and Curation of African American History is in Buffalo as part of its mission to ensure that it isn’t lost, forgotten, or erased. “We’re thrilled to support the preservation of local histories here in Buffalo and the Upstate New York region,” said Dr. Doretha K. Williams, director of the Center for the Digitization and Curation of African American History. “Over the last few y

Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor welcomes the Robert F. Smith Center for the Digitization and Curation of African American History.

Terry Alford, Executive Director, MSAAHC, Joined the Smithsonian to discuss how the Center for the Digitization and Curation of African American History - at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, partners with individuals and institutions nationwide to share preservation knowledge, develop digitization capacity, initiate genealogical research, and document community histories. Please join us May thru June as the digitization truck visits the corridor. F

Photo by Drew Brown Photo by Visit Buffalo Photo by Nancy J Parisi From a legendary jazz club to an Underground Railroad church, George Scott, president of the Colored Musicians Club and Jazz Museum, shares how Buffalo’s Black heritage is being preserved, restored, and reintroduced to the public. by Tiffany D. Gaines AFAR Contributor

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