From Left to Right: MSAAHCC Executive Director, Terry Alford, Mayank Das, Jaiyao Chen, Cayden Edwards, Kyla Gill and Paulette D. Harris The Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor (MSAAHC) proudly congratulates Mayank Das, Kyla Gill, Cayden Edwards, and Jiayao Chen on successfully completing SUNY University of Buffalo’s Social Impact Fellows Program. Over the course of eight weeks, the students worked closely with Paulette D. Harris,...

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 featured in The Negro...

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 searches in real time....