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OBA has been featured in numerous media reports. This is a sampling.
 
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You are the dream. Discover the dreamers. Genealogy, Slavery & Healing.
Last Updated: 18 June 2020   [Located in Category: Media]
Three women (including Sharon Morgan & Bernice Bennett) share the history of slavery in their families and discuss its impact
Last Updated: 31 July 2020   [Located in Category: Media]
How Do You Trace Ancestors Who Were Slaves?
Last Updated: 31 July 2020   [Located in Category: Media]
Beacon authors Sharon Morgan & Tom DeWolf discuss "Unlearning Division/Coming Together"
Last Updated: 31 July 2020   [Located in Category: Media]
Beacon Authors Reflect on the 400th Anniversary of Slavery in America
Last Updated: 31 July 2020   [Located in Category: Media]
Black History Month: Let's Make New History
Last Updated: 31 July 2020   [Located in Category: Media]
Her ancestors were slaves. His were slave traders. They took a road trip to 'confront that history'
Last Updated: 18 June 2020   [Located in Category: Media]
Sharon Leslie Morgan & Thomas Norman DeWolf discuss their healing journey with host Bernice Bennett
Last Updated: 31 July 2020   [Located in Category: Media]
Why You Should Dig Up Your Family’s History — and How to Do It.
Last Updated: 18 June 2020   [Located in Category: Media]
NPR
Sharon Morgan weighs in on Virginia Governor Northam "Racial Reconciliation Tour"
Last Updated: 31 July 2020   [Located in Category: Media]
Panel discussion hosted by Mississippi Library Commission
Last Updated: 27 March 2021   [Located in Category: Media]
Promo video produced by FamilySearch that shares the story of OBA founder Sharon Leslie Morgan, a keynote speaker for RootsTech Connect 2021.
Last Updated: 12 December 2020   [Located in Category: Media]
The Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth and Reconciliation (SCNTR), Black Belt Community Foundation (BBCF) and Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Selma held a book talk on Tuesday morning in which author Sharon Leslie Morgan discussed the book she co-wrote with Thomas Norman DeWolf, “Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade”.
Last Updated: 18 June 2020   [Located in Category: Media]
Every year, AAHGS gives national awards to honor individuals who have made lasting outstanding and innovative contributions to the advancement of African American genealogy and family history. Awards for 2019 were made at our 40th national conference October 10–12, 2019, held at the College Park Marriott in Hyattsville, Maryland. Sharon Leslie Morgan was awarded AAHGS’s highest award, the James Dent Walker Award, for her pioneering work as a founding member of AfriGeneas and communications consultant to AAHGS, where she has provided unfailing support to build and promote resources for African American family history. She is a nationally recognized pioneer in multicultural marketing and co-author of Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter and a Son of the Slave Trade and Gather at the Table. In 2007, she founded Our Black Ancestry Foundation, a nonprofit that aims to provide resources for African American genealogical research. Morgan is actively involved with Coming to theTable, an organization that promotes linkages between descendants of people who were enslaved and descendants of the families that enslaved them.
Last Updated: 27 March 2022   [Located in Category: Media]