Posts Tagged ‘museums’
National Association of Museum Schools Annual Conference
This 3-day conference will bring together educators from across the nation to network & share innovative teaching methods & strategies. Conference participants will take away best practices presented by award-winning museum schools and museums.
Read MoreU.S. museums return African bronzes stolen in 19th century
Some American museums are finally returning stolen African artifacts to the rightful owners of those relics.
Read MoreAcademy Museum’s Show on Black Cinema Raises Questions About Who It’s For
An exhibit in LA’s Academy Museum promises to focus on early Black cinema, but one critic wonders whether it targets white audiences too much.
Read MoreThe Jackie Robinson Museum is inspiring the next generation of social justice activists
Jackie Robinson may be better known as a baseball great, but the museum that just opened in his honor highlights his activism, too.
Read MoreBlack history and humanity are focus of SoFi’s Kinsey art exhibit
The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection has landed in Los Angeles at SoFi stadium, where visitors can learn about black history.
Read MoreAlabama spends more than a half-million dollars a year on a Confederate memorial. Black historical sites struggle to keep their doors open.
By Emmanuel Felton, The Washington Post MOUNTAIN CREEK, Ala. — Down a country road, past a collection of ramshackle mobile homes, sits a 102-acre “shrine to the honor of Alabama’s citizens of the Confederacy.” The state’s Confederate Memorial Park is a sprawling complex, home to a small museum and two well-manicured cemeteries with neat rows…
Read MoreLadies First: Smithsonian Hip-Hop Anthology Honors Women’s Contributions To The Genre
Kierna Mayo, a media maverick and an original staffer for groundbreaking hip-hop magazine The Source, has been one of the premier record-keepers of rap music. With an especial focus on the women of the genre (the debut 1999 issue of Mayo’s late magazine, Honey, featured Lauryn Hill on the cover), she has lovingly bridged the gap between lyricists and fans. Her essay “Hip-Hop Heroines” is a celebration of women’s contributions to hip-hop and is featured in the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap, which is available now.
Read MoreOn a Hill in Alabama, the Lynched Haunt Us
Lynchings are a part of the history of the United States but left out, glossed over or minimized in the history textbooks. The Legacy
Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice bring this history to life and is harder to deny.
America Is Racist. So What Do We Do Now? Activist Lawyer Bryan Stevenson Has Some Answers
Bryan Stevenson has some answers for those who are not sure what to do to change racism in America.
Read MoreWitness a history of racial injustice at two new museums in Alabama and Mississippi
This article is about the anti-lynching and racial injustice museums opening across the country, most notably The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi.
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