Aidan Pollard
The Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association in Oak Bluffs began in 1835 as a small community of like-minded men from Edgartown.
Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association
Camp Meeting History
Kate Dario
Peggy King Jorde, an expert on African burial grounds, has dedicated her life to ensuring memories of the disenfranchised are kept alive.
Bradley Memorial Church
African American History
Maia Coleman
Viewers from around the Island and across the country joined over Zoom for a morning of music and celebration as part of the fifth annual Martha’s Vineyard Collaborative Black History event.
Black History Month
Kimberly Budd, the new chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, has close ties to Martha’s Vineyard.
Louisa Hufstader
Three Tankard siblings (of 10 total) joined an eager audience of listeners for this month’s Tuesdays in the Newsroom talk.
Tuesdays in the Newsroom
Holly Pretsky
An exhibit titled And Still We Rise: Race Culture and Visual Conversations, includes more than 40 quilts and is on display at the Mariposa Museum and World Culture Center in Oak Bluffs.
African American History
Louisa Hufstader
Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been vacationing on the Vineyard since 1981.
Martha's Vineyard Book Festival
Skip Finley
Many contributors to black history weren’t black. Take the abolitionists, for example.
African American History
Civil rights
Slavery
Oak Bluffs history
Jason Gay
This is the unusual story of the unlikely relationship between two families.
Black History Month
African American History
Noah Asimow
The Edgartown courthouse was celebrated as the 30th site on the African American Heritage Trail, with a plaque honoring district court judge Herbert Tucker.
African American Heritage Trail
Holly Pretsky
On Sunday Grace Church became the 28th site on the African American Heritage Trail.
African American Heritage Trail
African American History
Grace Episcopal Church
Sara Brown
Olive Tomlinson, Gretchen Tucker Underwood and Skip Finley shared memories of their Oak Bluffs childhoods, moving in the orbit of a tight-knit community of African American summer residents.
Tuesdays in the Newsroom
African American History

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