Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The “Heritage Quilt” shines a light on a Black and Creole community in southwest Louisiana Top 3 playlist Black people have ...

The African American Quilt Circle of San Antonio is preserving personal, political, and historical narratives through the ancestral practice of quiltmaking. “There’s a determination not to tell the ...

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 quilt is composed of groupings of three hexagons, with each grouping paying tribute to one of 30 figures from African-American history, she said. One hexagon bears the person’s name; another shows ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A unique woven quilt is on display at the Michigan State University Museum, and with it comes nearly 70 years of history. The “signature quilt” was created by women from ...

History is kept alive in many ways—through historical novels, ballads, folklore passed down through the generations. For one group of Arlington seniors, local history of the now closed Lee Center is ...

A famous quilt made to teach Black history and shown around the country during the 1976 United States Bicentennial celebration was stolen from the lobby of the Oregon Historical Society in Portland ...

Seventy-eight-year-old Caroline Williams is a walking repository of South Arkansas African-American history. "I wrote a book about both my great- and great-great-grandmothers titled 'The Quilted ...

PRAIRIE GROVE -- A collaboration between history, art and a local quilting shop recently provided Prairie Grove Junior High students hands-on learning as they did a "deep dive into the quilt codes" ...

BENNINGTON, VT. — While U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan after 15 years, and the global reach of World War II's six years was unprecedented in scope, the American Civil War remains the nation's ...

Black people have traditionally used quilts to tell their stories. Harriett Powers, for example, born into slavery in 1837, created the much-lauded “Bible Quilt” that hangs in the National Museum of ...