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MoCoLMP 2024: Remembering our shared history is more important than ever. We continued to create and support community (from 641 to 700 members), research and record the history of slavery and emancipation in the county, and hold field trips to spaces where we can continue to learn about race and racism in Maryland and Montgomery County. Find out more...

Linden-Lyttonsville in Silver Spring underwent significant urban renewal in the 1970s. We talk with a historic descendant about its effects.

Suzanne Johnson of the Sugarland historic Black community in MD remembers the self-sufficient community and the delicious food they made.

At the MD State Archives looking for names of Montgomery County, MD enslaved & enslavers in the early 1860s.

Located in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum celebrates the significant accomplishments and struggles of African...

Sunday, December 8 Walking tour, 10-11:30 a.m. Lunch, 12-1:30 p.m. Freedom House Museum, 2:15-4:45 p.m. Join MoCoLMP in Old Town...

"I was born down on the river bottom about four miles below Edwards Ferry, on the Eight Mile Level, between Edward's Ferry and Seneca...."

What if kids were instead more systematically taught about racism at the moment they are starting to see it themselves?

The official museum of Maryland's African American history, the Banneker-Douglass Museum is in the historic former Mt. Moriah African...

Podcasts can entertain and teach--good on a long car drive. These are three podcasts we've learned from lately.

The Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI "I was committed to what I defined as "one of the most important tasks of our...