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You are warmly invited to join us at a panel on Saturday at the Poolesville library.

Did 1860s Montgomery County, MD have farms or plantations? Language is important.

Classifying places of enslavement in Montgomery County, MD: plantations or farms?

MoCoLMP's new, expanded exhibit on the three lynchings in 1880s and '90s Montgomery County, MD premieres Sep. 22 in Poolesville, MD.

This article talks about current efforts to limit discussion at National Park Service sites of the full history of the U.S.

Because of repeated attacks on Black history and the truth, the MoCoLMP Steering Committee believes it necessary to restate our...

The killing of George Floyd on Monday May 25, 2020 was a seismic event in American history, but not because it was unusual. White folks in the New World have been killing Blacks for hundreds of years. What was different about Floyd’s killing was how unapologetically brazen and flagrant it was. And how visible....

MoCoLMP is naming & mapping enslavers & enslaved in 1860s Montgomery County, MD, and researching their connections to the 110 named historic Black communities that sprang up around them.

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...

A historic Black community in Montgomery County, MD River Road School, circa 1930s. Archival photo courtesy of The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) The River Road/Crow Hill community of about 33 families ( (Roberts 2017) was about where the McDonald’s is now, northwest of Little Falls Parkway. The Clipper Lane and Dorsey Lane kinship communities were down the road a little way and across the street. Two acres of Crow Hill belonged to John Burle