Thenow-abandoned Portsmouth Community Library, also known as the “colored”library, echoes an era of segrgation many prefer to forget. Not Mae Breckenridge-Haywood. The president of the African ...

The Granville Street Colored Library opened its doors June 12, 1942. It closed its doors for good in May of 1975. Nearly five decades later, and the building now has a marker out front to let people ...

CURIOUS MINDS: Librarian Irene Hendrick checks books out to a group of young girls at Asheville’s former Market Street Branch. The photo is believed to have been taken in 1946. The three young girls ...

When Antwan Aiken and his husband Jeremy opened Eggs Up Grill in Morrow last February, they were looking for organizations to partner with to increase their visibility in the community. They started ...

The Carver branch of the Ouachita Parish Public Library provided library services to a generation of African Americans who would have otherwise gone without. Prior to 1948, African Americans in the ...