Google Maps can do so much more than just getting you to the nearest gas station.
For lovers of Black History Month, the innovative platform can allow you to experience black history like no other by taking virtual trips to some of the most iconic Black heritage sites and landmarks like the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas and 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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The Birthplace of Rap
DJ Kool Herc is credited with helping to start hip-hop and rap music at a house concert on August 11, 1973.
1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx
Underground Railroad’s “Grand Depot”
“The Grand Depot” on the Underground Railroad was a major center for abolitionism.
Plymouth Church, 75 Hicks Street, Brooklyn
