Apothecaries had a close connection to the slave trade because boats crossing the Atlantic needed medicines to fight disease.

The group asked to be “liberated and made free men of this community.”

There is almost no history of enslaved people in the nation's oldest public park, but we know they were there.

Enslaved people were only allowed to sit in the Boston church's highest gallery.

The church’s congregation was among the first to address anti-slavery on a national level.

Jones co-founded a nonprofit and is advocating for medical civil rights bills.

King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge a deeper understanding of “the leader, the preacher, the orator, the husband, the father, the martyr, the human being…in all his heroic, tragic Glory. Hallelujah!" (Ken Burns) King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Bestselling biographer Jonathan Eig gives us an intimate view, casting fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. In this remarkable account of our only modern-day founding father, we gain an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements. Join us for Eig’s presentation and discussion with Peniel Joseph, Professor and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, The University of Texas at Austin, one day after the Juneteenth holiday. This talk is brought to you by American Ancestors New England Historical and Genealogical Society (NEHGS), the Boston Public Library and the Museum of African American History.

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The remains of about 350 Native people, many who were dug up from their graves in New England, are still on museum shelves.

"I couldn't think of a better place to spend National Park Week," he said of his time in Boston.

The event will take place in Arlington, Virginia on Apr. 22.