A statue of Benjamin Bannecker on view at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, as seen in 2020 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons This summer, billions of ...
In “Benjamin Banneker and Us,” Rachel Jamison Webster uncovers Black ancestors she never knew about, and with the help of far-flung relatives assembles her family’s story. By Jess Row When you ...
The emergence of 17-year cicadas in the summer of 2021 revived interest in a paper Janet Barber co-authored about the role of Benjamin Banneker—a free African-American in 18th-century Maryland—as one ...