Category: Media

On March 18 we were thrilled to break ground on the AARCH Society African American Heritage Center on the corner of All Saints Street and Carroll Street. We were joined by grant partners, government officials, AARCH Society Board members and volunteers, and a wide range of supporters who have joined together to help bring forth our vision of creating Frederick County’s first museum and cultural center focused on the history and contributions made by local African Americans. Click here to view the Frederick News Post feature on our Heritage Center groundbreaking ceremony. Photo credit: Frederick News Post, Katina Zentz

The Frederick News Post recently featured the African American Resources Cultural and Heritage Society in an article on $10 million for Maryland projects recently approved by the U.S. Senate’s Appropriations Committee. If approved, AARCH Society will receive $162,000 in grant funds that will be put toward digitizing and preserving its archival collections in preparation for the opening of Frederick’s African American Heritage Society. Read the News Post feature here.

We are excited to announce that the African American Resources Cultural and Heritage (AARCH) Society is a recipient of a full set of  “Belva’s Museum Artifacts,” a seven-volume newsletter highlighting African American history in Frederick, MD. Read the Frederick News Post feature on this new AARCH Society Heritage Center acquisition here. Photo credit: Delaplaine Foundation. Left to right, Rick Simmons, Sir Speedy Printing, Mary Mannix, Frederick County Public Libraries, Seaven Gordon, AARCH Society, Belva King, Protean Gibril, AARCH Society, Blair Wilson, Delaplaine Foundation.

“Examining the Past” in February’s Frederick Magazine highlights some important African American historical spots in Frederick city and county and AARCH Society’s Guided Historic Walking Tours. Read more and sign up for our tour under Programs & Events!

AARCH Society and the Frederick Downtown Partnership recently co-hosted a brainstorming session for a new restoration and public art project underway for the Seventh Street Fountain at the intersection of N. Market and 7^th Streets. Learn more in the Frederick News Post here.

Read this feature by The Frederick News Post: “In the years since “The Tale of the Lion: Our Voices, Our Stories” premiered at the Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick in 2018, several organizations have requested showings of the documentary, to hear from the people whom Barbara Thompson calls “our living treasures.” Read the full article here.

Read this 2003 Washington Post feature interview with AARCH Society founder William O. Lee, who shares why Frederick County’s African Americans deserve better than to have to search in his basement for their ancestral roots.

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