Harpo Studios is home to the world-famous Oprah Winfrey show. Winfrey is America’s first African-American female billionaire, and the creator of OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Civil rights leader Ida B. Wells and her husband Ferdinand Lee Barnett resided here from 1919 to 1930.
This trail in Portsmouth, NH stops along many places where Portsmouth’s black residents lived and worked.
The African Meeting House was built in 1806 and is now the oldest black church edifice still standing in the United States. It is now the Museum of African-American History.
