Black history has never survived because institutions made its preservation easy. It survived because our ancestors carried stories across generations, protected family memories, saved photographs, built archives, and refused to let the truth disappear.
That same spirit has guided our Facebook community from the beginning.
Through African American History, we worked to honor the people, events, sacrifices, and achievements that shaped Black America. We shared stories that were excluded from classrooms, overlooked by mainstream media, or reduced to only a few sentences in history books. Together, we created a community where hundreds of thousands of people could learn, remember, and celebrate our history.
Unfortunately, Facebook recently unpublished our original page, which had grown to approximately 311,000 followers.
Losing access to a community of that size has been deeply painful. Those numbers represented far more than followers. They represented people who read the stories, shared them with their families, added personal memories in the comments, corrected forgotten details, and helped important history reach new generations.
However, one unpublished page cannot erase our purpose.
Black history itself teaches us that when one door is closed, we organize, rebuild, and continue moving forward. Our mission was never tied to a single Facebook page. It belongs to everyone who believes these stories deserve to be researched, preserved, and shared.
We have now started a new page:
https://www.facebook.com/AfricanAmericanHistories
We respectfully ask every member of our former community to follow this new page and help us rebuild. Please also invite your friends, share this announcement, and leave a comment after following. Every action helps reconnect us with people who may not know what happened to the original page.
We especially want to speak to the contributors who supported our work through Buy Me a Coffee.
Your generosity helped us continue researching, writing, preserving, and publishing African American history. You believed in this mission before this setback, and we are sincerely grateful. If you previously contributed through Buy Me a Coffee, please follow our new page so that we do not lose our connection with you. Your support was never taken for granted, and we want you beside us as this community begins its next chapter.
To everyone who followed the old page, thank you for helping it reach approximately 311,000 people. Although Facebook unpublished that space, it cannot remove the knowledge we shared, the conversations we started, or the people those stories inspired.
This new page will continue highlighting freedom fighters, educators, inventors, artists, veterans, organizers, families, and everyday Black Americans whose courage helped transform the nation. We will continue telling the familiar stories, but we will also search for the names and experiences that history too often left in the shadows.
We are rebuilding from the beginning, but we are not beginning without experience, purpose, or community. We are carrying everything we learned—and every person who chooses to return—with us.
Please follow our new page today:
https://www.facebook.com/AfricanAmericanHistories
Then share this message so other members of our former community can find us.
Pages may disappear, but our history will not. As long as we continue remembering, documenting, and sharing, the story lives on.