MyBlackHistory.org helps families, churches, schools, veterans, communities, businesses, and organizations preserve, discover, and share Black history across generations.
Submit a Story Explore the ArchiveHistory is not only found in textbooks. It lives in family photos, church records, military service, business ownership, school memories, oral histories, neighborhood stories, civil rights work, music, faith, migration, and everyday perseverance.
A living archive for stories, photos, videos, interviews, timelines, documents, family history, institutions, and community memory.
Every family has names, places, photographs, lessons, sacrifices, achievements, and memories that deserve to be protected and shared.
Parents, grandparents, ancestors, migrations, homes, schools, businesses, faith, military service, and family milestones.
Neighborhoods, churches, schools, civil rights work, local leaders, historic places, and community traditions.
Interviews, documentaries, speeches, sermons, oral histories, performances, lectures, and recorded memories.
Programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, certificates, obituaries, letters, awards, and historic records.
MyBlackHistory.org organizes stories by themes that help visitors discover people, places, and legacies.
Civil rights, segregation, Juneteenth, local memory, migration, education, military service, and public leadership.
Black churches, pastors, gospel, prayer, ministries, family formation, spiritual leadership, and community care.
Music, food, arts, literature, sports, festivals, fraternities, sororities, style, and creative expression.
Entrepreneurs, chambers, family businesses, professionals, founders, contractors, and wealth builders.
Military service, sacrifice, leadership, benefits, veteran-owned businesses, and patriotic contribution.
Elected officials, educators, pastors, executives, activists, institution builders, authors, and civic voices.
Families can use MyBlackHistory.org to begin documenting their own legacy in a structured way.
Birthplaces, migrations, marriages, schools, military service, church membership, careers, achievements, and milestones.
Short biographies of parents, grandparents, elders, and ancestors whose lives shaped the family.
Family photographs, captions, locations, names, dates, reunions, homes, churches, schools, and community events.
Guided prompts that help families interview elders and preserve stories before they are lost.
Black history is also institutional history. Churches, schools, chambers, veterans groups, newspapers, fraternities, sororities, and community organizations have carried generations forward.
Historic congregations, pastors, choirs, missions, ministries, anniversaries, and community leadership.
Teachers, alumni, desegregation stories, student leaders, scholarships, and educational legacy.
Publishers, journalists, community reporting, civil rights coverage, and the preservation of public memory.
Business advocacy, entrepreneurship, procurement, economic opportunity, and institution building.
American Legion posts, service groups, military families, veteran leaders, and community service.
NAACP branches, fraternities, sororities, clubs, neighborhood groups, and local leadership networks.
MyBlackHistory.org can support families, schools, churches, museums, libraries, students, media, and community educators.
Help students research family history, local leaders, churches, neighborhoods, and overlooked Black history.
Topic guides, timelines, video playlists, discussion questions, writing prompts, and local history projects.
Support church anniversaries, pastor profiles, ministry history, choir history, and community impact documentation.
Stories, videos, speaker profiles, family history prompts, classroom features, and community celebration ideas.
The platform can grow into a premium preservation and storytelling service for families, churches, organizations, and communities.
A written profile preserving the story of a family member, ancestor, veteran, pastor, educator, entrepreneur, or community leader.
A structured digital page for churches documenting founding history, pastors, ministries, anniversaries, and community impact.
Preserve military service, assignments, medals, sacrifice, family impact, and post-service leadership.
Document a neighborhood, school, church, chamber, civil rights event, or local institution over time.
Guided questions, story prompts, video interview planning, transcript support, and publish-ready profiles.
A dedicated page for photos, documents, videos, stories, links, and family or institutional history.
Share a family story, church history, veteran profile, community memory, business legacy, photo, video link, or institution that deserves to be remembered.