Central Park Offers Limited Opportunity to Learn About Seneca Village, Abolitionist History in NYC
February 10, 2025By Currents News During Black History Month we are showing you an unknown part of American and New York history that is […]
Topic: Abolitionist
At National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Trump Announces He Will Sign ‘Born Alive’ Executive Order
September 23, 2020By Emily Drooby “I will always defend the sacred right to life” — a strong statement coming from President Donald Trump on Sept. 23 […]
Brooklyn’s Role in Freeing America’s Slaves
February 25, 2020By Emily Drooby Weeksville, Brooklyn was one of the first communities for free black Americans in the nation. Now, this almost 200-year-old […]
From the Right to Vote to the Right to Life: Remembering Susan B. Anthony
February 13, 2020Currents News Staff Feb. 15 would have been the two-hundredth birthday of one of America’s most famous suffragettes: Susan B. Anthony. Anthony […]
New Yorkers Fight to Preserve a Piece of Abolitionist History
February 13, 2020By Jessica Easthope Shattered windows, wooden boards and a crumbling façade are all part of the face of freedom at 227 Duffield […]
National Freedom Day: Beyond the Thirteenth Amendment
January 28, 2020Currents News Staff February 1 marks National Freedom Day, honoring the signing of the resolution that later became the Thirteenth Amendment to […]
Thousands Gather to Reflect on History, Strife of Slavery in America
August 26, 2019Currents News Staff Four hundred years ago this month, the first documented Africans were brought to British North America. The arrival of […]
Church Linked to Harriet Tubman Damaged by Lightning
August 20, 2019Currents News Staff On August 18, a lightning strike hit the steeple of Thompson Memorial AME Zion Church in Auburn, New York, […]
Brooklyn Home for Abolitionists
August 19, 2016Brooklyn, commonly known as the Diocese of Immigrants, is earning the title “The Diocese of Abolitionists” as the Brooklyn Historical Society is […]