Join the African American Resources Cultural and Heritage (AARCH) Society and Jack and Jill of America, Inc., Western Maryland Chapter for a very special night of celebration. Bring your mask and join our interactive ball filled with inspiring stories, food, wine, cocktails, music, and more in support of good causes.  Click here for tickets! We...

Join AARCH Society during the Frederick Museums by Candlelight event at Lincoln Elementary School. "Back to Our Bygone Days," a documentary featuring interviews with attendees of Frederick County's only secondary school for African Americans, will be shown on the hour at 1, 2, 3, and 4 PM. A children's book reading and activity will follow...

Join Jenny Masur, author of "Maryland Freedom Seekers on the Underground Railroad," to hear stories of enslaved people navigating perilous journeys helped along by members of the Underground Railroad. Jenny holds a Ph.D. in anthropology and worked for 17 years for the National Park Service as national capital region manager for the National Underground Railroad Network...

View the recording of the final performance of the MET’s 20th mainstage world premiere performance highlighting the rich stories of Frederick’s African American community that contributed to the landscape of Frederick as we know it today.

If you missed it live or want to enjoy it again, please join us for the film premiere of "South and Saints," the Maryland Ensemble Theatre's staging of the rich stories Frederick's African American community that contributed so much to Frederick's current landscape. This film captures the final stage performance of this critically acclaimed show....

The Delaplaine Arts Center and AARCH Society presents “Art at Night With Debra Ambush - Featuring the Allen Ambush Jazz Quartet.” A presentation in conjunction with Dr. Ambush’s exhibition at the Delaplaine – “When We Can Say for Ourselves: Embodying Letters from Farmville, 1867–1964.”  Join us for an evening of Artist Discussion and Jazz Performance as...

AARCH Society will present a Black History Month exhibit "Our Journey Our Stories Told Through the Arts" at the C. Burr Artz Public Library for the month of February 2024. It will provide glimpses of the planned Heritage Center core exhibit "Our Journey, Our Stories" while featuring Frederick County connected African Americans involved in the...

AARCH Society will present a Black History Month display at Walkersville Library.

Jackson Chapel UMC with AARCH Society. Honoring the legacy of Frederick’s African American Churches and featuring a presentation by Author Elayne Bond Hyman and her book “They Came Across South Mountain," which is a love story of four generations of one family, free people of color living in a time when freedom wasn’t free. They...

After emancipation in Maryland in 1864, African Americans in Frederick County were eager to establish schools for their children. The first school opened in 1865 in Quinn Chapel AME Church in Frederick. With the assistance of the Freedmen’s Bureau and philanthropic and religious organizations, at least 14 schools operated between 1865 to 1872 when the...