A new chapter in American history opened as the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in January of 1865, was implemented. It abolished slavery in the United States, and now, with the end of the war, four million African Americans were free. As a result, millions of African Americans began to build a new place for themselves in public life, actively confronting racial prejudice as well as economic, political and social challenges to create a Black urban culture that would exert enormous influence in the decades to come. Join our black historian of the week, Kymara Sneed, as we discuss the progress of the black community post Emancipation, the Great Migration, and the Harlem Renaissance viewed through an afrocentric lens.