African Burial Ground Memorial, Photo: Manjari Sharma

March 5, 2008. Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) is a public Web site created by CCNMTL and partners to enhance the appreciation and study of significant sites and moments in the history of African Americans in New York from the early 17th-century through the recent past.

Read about the MAAP project on the New York Times Web site and on the Columbia Teachers College Web site.

Learn more about the MAAP Web site by reading the project description or by visiting the MAAP Web site.

Subscribe and listen to audio podcasts describing people and places highlighted in the MAAP Web site. Podcasts also available from the iTunes Store Podcast Directory.

In addition, the site will officially launch this afternoon at the Heritage High School in East Harlem with speeches by Dennis Walcott, deputy mayor; Robert Jackson, city councilman, chair of the NYC Education Committee; Sabrina King, chief academic officer of the NYC Department of Education and William Baldwin, vice provost of Teachers College.