Juneteenth, a combination of the words June and nineteenth, is a holiday that celebrates freedom from slavery in the United States. Many...

On June 6, the Greenbelt Museum hosted a virtual panel talk that explored how the New Deal transformed the greater Washington area...

Just a few miles down the road from Greenbelt at the University of Maryland in College Park, there exists a rich history of connection...

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI). As award-winning Asian American educator Elizabeth Kleinroc stated in an article she...

Earth Day’s origins can be traced back to peace activist John McConnell. Attending a UNESCO conference in San Francisco in 1969, he...

In the November 16, 1939, issue of the Greenbelt Cooperator, a short editorial statement appeared (see above). The statement was...

Did you know that our modern-day ironing board was invented by a Black woman who'd been born in 1832 to enslaved parents in North...

Did you have a chance to see Regina Shaw Small's Black History Artifacts Pop-up Museum that was on display in the Greenbelt Community...

Desegregating Greenbelt: Family Histories of the Community's First Black Residents is a Black History Month program offered by the...

In the 1930s, '40s and '50s, in a segregated Prince George’s County, local Black communities developed and supported their own...

We are watching the inspirational journey of the Mars rover today. Good luck, Perseverance! Black History at our neighbor, NASA Goddard,...

Watch this short film about African Americans and the Great Depression. To learn more about why FDR didn't support anti-lynching laws,...

Did you know that there was a thriving black cooperative movement in Washington DC in the late 1930’s? The woman at the center of this...

Did you know there is a National Public Housing Museum based in Chicago? We've followed the progress of this fascinating organization for...

Did you know that Greenbelt began as a segregated community? Despite the fact that it was built by both Black and white relief workers,...

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is often described as the most widely acclaimed Black artist of the 20th century. Did you know that he...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his WPA (Works Progress Administration) commissioned the Federal Writer’s Project to interview...

Here are another couple of photos from the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration Collection. These were taken by Arthur...

Joseph Arnold in his book, The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program 1935-1954, writes that there were several...

This photo of Black workers at the Greenbelt construction site is one of many taken by the photographers hired by the Resettlement...