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- They help restore public memory by chronicling social and political movements, including Reconstruction and the labor, women’s rights, civil rights, Black Power, and Black Lives Matter movements.
www.urban.org/urban-wire/our-nation-needs-african-american-museums-restore-public-memory-and-light-way-forwardOur Nation Needs African American Museums to Restore Public ...
Feb 5, 2024 · Travelers looking for first-voice museums that comprehensively examine the Black community’s history and culture should start at Washington, D.C.’s National Museum of African American...
- Sheeka Sanahori
Oct 21, 2020 · Black museums are a single community among many spaces in which black study prevails: enslaved intellectuals excluded from academe (“Intellectual Labor on College Campuses”); enslaved women who articulated their selfhood through speech (“We Have No Way Through But to Create Ourselves”); contemporary engagements with inclusion and diversity among...
Feb 22, 2021 · Across the country, hundreds of African American museums and collections at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) document African American life, history, and culture. They help restore public memory by chronicling social and political movements, including Reconstruction and the labor, women’s rights, civil rights, Black Power ...
Mar 18, 2024 · Black museums, including the new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, aim to tell African American history, as some states push for restrictions.
- Deborah Barfield Berry
- National Correspondent
While African Americans have few traditions of giving material to museums, it is crucial that more of the black past make it into American cultural repositories. A good example is the Smithsonian, when the National Museum of American History wanted to mount an exhibition on slavery, it found it did not have any objects that described slavery.
Nov 4, 2021 · Why Museums Are Primed to Address Racism, Inequality in the U.S. Smithsonian leaders discuss how the Institution can be a powerful place for investigating and addressing society’s most difficult...
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The California African American Museum (CAAM) offers events celebrating Black farmers, chefs, and entrepreneurs; interactive healing circles and discussions; book club; and resources about Black History Month in California history.
