COMING IN 2025
A Black History and Culture Speakers Bureau that will focus on a new "By the Book" reading and discussion series and the exhibition, "History in Their Hands: Black Photographers in Cleveland, Ohio, 1968-Present."
Above (left to right): Novella Nimmo-Black, a Harriet Tubman banner at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and Regennia N. Williams.
In The News
Nov 25, 2024
Creative Focus
Dr. Regennia N. Williams is the Founder and Executive Director of The RASHAD Center, Inc., a Maryland-based non-profit educational corporation. Williams holds a PhD in Social History and Policy from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. As a public scholar, her current research projects focus on African American history and culture, especially as it relates to music, religion, and spirituality. She is a member of the Oral History Association, the Western Reserve Historical Society, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
A Inspired Year to Remember
By Regennia N. Williams, PhD The folder cover for information packets that we distributed for the Smithsonian-Cleveland Partnership launch activities.
Black veterans display their history of Cleveland through camera lens (photos)
Photographer Mychal Lilly shows one of his iconic photos from an Ohio high school track meet during the Western Reserve Historical Society’s event “Coffee and Conversations about History” as part of the History in Their Hands: Black photographers in Cleveland.
Black photographers share poignant work in new exhibit highlighting African American contributions to history
History in Their Hands: Black Photographers in Cleveland, Ohio, 1968 – Present is at the Western Reserve Historical Society's Cleveland History Center through August of 2025.
History Center exhibit puts spotlight on ‘Black Photographers in Cleveland: 1968 - present’
"History in Our Hands" explores Black photojournalism in a locally focused way, reveals a bigger collaboration with one of the largest educational institutions in the world.
Cleveland to participate in national effort to preserve Black history
A Western Reserve Historical Society and National Museum of African American History and Culture partnership aims to preserve Cleveland's Black history.
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Black History Spotlight w/Regennia Williams (Western Reserve Historical Society) Host: Errol Porter
TV20 Cleveland focuses on African American History and Culture.
The African American Archives Auxiliary and African American History Initiatives at the Western Reserve Historical Society are pleased to partner with The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Robert F. Smith Center for the Digitization and Curation of African American History
A CELEBRATION AND EXPLORATION OF HISTORY AS WE PLAN FOR THE FUTURE