Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society

11/22/2025

11/17/2025

In tribute to librarians everywhere and especially to our Triangle Chapter President, retired librarian extraordinaire Wanda Cox Bailey! This young man carries on the legacy!

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Mychal Threets was announced as the new host of the iconic PBS series Reading Rainbow. He spent 11 years as a librarian at the Fairfield Civic Center Library in Fairfield, California. His uplifting videos about books and kindness have reached millions of people on social media, and now the new Reading Rainbow reboot is gaining millions of viewers on YouTube too.

Mychal said, "I was raised on Reading Rainbow. LeVar Burton is my hero. I am a reader, I am a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow so powerfully made us believe we belong in books, we belong everywhere."

The show will continue its mission to inspire curiosity and a love of reading. Mychal Threets grew up watching the series, and now he is the one carrying it forward. A boy who once found belonging in books will now help a new generation find it too.

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📸 (Photo: Mychal Threets / Elizabeth Dyer Photography)

10/25/2025

Great workshops this week at the NC Genealogical Society Fall Conference 2025!

10/12/2025

Scenes from AAHGS National Conference in Charleston, SC! Triangle Chapter members gathered at the display quilt after the awards luncheon.

10/11/2025

Congratulations to all award winners today. Special recognition for the Triangle Chapter winners: Desi Campbell, Carmen Cauthen, and Leonard Swinson!

10/03/2025

I have a ticket for Tuesday evening’s AA museum tour in Charleston that I cannot use. Anyone
need a ticket?

09/10/2025

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09/03/2025

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Desi L. Campbell, respected historian, published author, and executive director of the Harnett County African American Heritage Center, is set to take the national stage at the 2025 Afro-American Historical

09/02/2025

Enjoyed the Leach, Elliott, King Family Reunion in Raeford this past weekend!

08/25/2025

A Bit of Black Owned and Black Led Cooperative History.

Esther "Essie" Malone was born in 1916 in Savannah, Georgia, where her family ran a small corner grocery in a Black neighborhood hit hard by the Great Depression. By 1931, at 15, Essie stepped in after her father’s illness, managing the store as customers traded goods for credit amid widespread poverty. She stretched meager supplies—bartering rice and molasses for fish or firewood—keeping the shelves stocked with ingenuity.
In 1934, a hurricane flooded the store, but Essie salvaged what she could, drying goods on the porch and reopening within days. By 1937, she expanded with a garden out back, growing vegetables to sell and share with the hungry. During World War II, Essie rationed supplies for the war effort, earning community trust. Post-war, she turned the store into a cooperative, employing neighbors. Reflecting on her life, Essie told her daughter, “The Depression emptied our bins, but I grew hope from the dirt.”

08/24/2025

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/history/giant-family-tree-unveiled-in-switzerland/89812956

Switzerland unveils 230,000-year family tree tracing Walser ancestry.