Web site details black history in W. Md.

Baltimore Sun by Elizabeth Malby | Feb. 28, 2009 (Special Report)

Lorraine Wells was about to give up. More than 10 years of searching for clues about the now-deceased father she never knew while growing up in Cumberland had produced nothing.

Then the 46-year-old Oakland, Calif., resident got a call from her brother Jeffrey, who lives in Cumberland, about a Web site that chronicles Western Maryland's black history. The Allegany County African American History collection comprises more than 400 images, includes ... Full Story »

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4.2
 by Tamika Thompson - Feb. 27, 2009

This is a well sourced, thoughtfully told story of one man's effort to chronicle a community's African American history on the web. Great story. Great writing.

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