River tour, children book exhibit highlight 2024 Black History Month events
A river tour, a lecture, a powerful moving play and the 9th annual children book exhibit are some of the 2024 Black History Month events that will be hosted by the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum this February.
Something old, something new: Tech innovation center is at home in Dignowity Hill as community aims to preserve past
Dignowity Hill is committed to its history but open to its evolution, according to neighbors. A unique example of that is the importance and reverence people share for The Carver, a performing arts center that was once the only library for Black San Antonians during segregation. Just blocks away, a company focused on innovation in the life sciences has become part of the neighborhood. And the latter has plans to grow even bigger roots in Dignowity Hill.
Couple who unknowingly bought ex-slave plantation learn about mansion’s past, history of slaves along Cibolo Creek
A retired military couple, Keith and Robin Muschalek bought a dilapidated Wilson County home in 2015. They soon found out the property was a slave plantation, and are now trying to learn more about the enslaved people who lived and worked there. The other unanswered question revolves around their emancipation: Where did they go?
Green Book Tour to stop at some of the places listed in San Antonio
As part of Black History Month, a bus tour will travel back in time as the San Antonio African-American Community Archive and Museum visits several locations listed in the Green Book, an essential travel guide during the Jim Crow era, on Wednesday.
In photos: The rise of Kamala Harris, our country’s first woman of color to serve as vice president
Vice President Kamala Harris has had quite the rise over the past decade or so: From San Francisco’s district attorney and California’s attorney general, to the Golden State’s senator and now our second in command, right behind President Joe Biden.