A historic Black community in Maryland is planning its biggest Juneteenth celebration to date after receiving a donation of $1 million from the Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation.
The Scotland Community located in Potomac, MD dates back to the Reconstruction Era when newly freed African Americans were first allowed to buy property.
What started as a mother's curiosity about her daughter's classmates led to an interracial and interfaith effort to save a historical Potomac community in 1965.
Construction crews raised a historic Black church Thursday as part of the restoration effort after a flood wiped out its foundation in 2019, making the.