Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Connie Martin always knew who her ancestors were growing up. “There was a big picture of (her great-grandmother) in grandma Lizzie ...

Stroud's (Down Home at Miss Dessa's) affecting story of Hannah, a slave on a Georgia plantation, is inspired by the actual use of quilts as a means of communication on the Underground Railroad. Hannah ...

Juneteenth, which commemorates June 19, 1865 — the day the last enslaved people in Texas were freed — was observed this week. But the WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park is continuing the ...

The Underground Railroad was a clandestine system for slaves in America to find passage to freedom. There were trails to follow and people who could provide them with food and safe haven until they ...

As he put together an exhibit of ceramic sculptures, quilts and paintings for Black History Month, art student Sean Beard of Cal State Northridge drew on his roots. “Mother Weep No More” at the campus ...

A display at Public Library of Enid and Garfield County takes viewers back to the days when quilts were more than just a means of sleeping warm — they were a silent message telling escaped slaves how ...

KENDALL — Fifth-grade students at Kendall Elementary School recently completed a service learning project. In their reading and social studies classes students learned about the Civil War, the ...

SHERMAN — Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, Kamala Harris and Martin Luther King Jr., are some of several dozen Black heroes studied by students at The Sherman School, as part of a month-long project ...

TUNKHANNOCK — The first Tunkhannock Quilt and Artisan Walk is set for Saturday, Oct. 3, with the Dietrich Theater as one destination. The Dietrich will display newly sewn Stack-n-Whack quilts as well ...

Some quilters prefer traditional patterns; others lean toward art quilts. A fair number of us enjoy making both types. Those who are comfortable with commercial fabrics and patterns may have a ...