The National Civil Rights Museum and Just City are hosting Journey to Justice, 90-minute symposium to highlight the critical work being done to change the criminal legal system throughout the country and to demonstrate how much work there is yet to do. The sessions focus on how this system impacts families and the society, how it
When: Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 1:00pm-2:00pm Organizer: NC African American Heritage Commission External URL: Registration Link Contact: Adrienne Nirde aahc@ncdcr.gov This webinar is the fifth installment of a six-part Zoom webinar series designed to offer guidance and strategies around how to sustain our institutions in this moment. The series will leverage the expertise of sixteen
Grants from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund are designed to advance ongoing preservation activities for historic places such as sites, museums, and landscapes representing African American cultural heritage. The fund supports work in four primary areas: Capital Projects, Organizational Capacity Building, Project Planning, and Programming and Interpretation. Grants
AAMG’s 2021 conference will explore how academic museums and galleries are fostering wellness and embracing new understandings of equity in the midst of one of the most challenging social, political, and economic periods in American history. This year’s conference aims to find new paths and solutions to a more just and empathetic world. We invite
View the ribbon cutting ceremony here: https://blackmuseums.org/the-national-museum-of-african-american-music-opening/
This is the third installment to the mental health series and the importance of male vulnerability. Join The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum as they dive into the hard conversation that is mental health in the black community. Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/big-boys-do-cry-tickets-134790579251
Registration: https://www.bu.edu/haa/museums-and-the-black-lives-matter-movement-request-for-access/
This virtual event (from The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum) is under the Mind Body and Art umbrella that offers veterans a healthy alternative to healthsavy.com coping with PTSD by showcasing their artistic talents of comedy and storytelling. Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ready-and-forward-asap-armed-services-art-partnership-tickets-135740231687
Description: This webinar will offer an exploration into the world of public art collections management with Emily Wilkinson, the Director for Public Art at Texas Tech University (TTU), and Lori Goldstein, the Manager of WESTAF’s Public Art Archive (PAA). Since the program’s inception in 1998, TTU has installed over one hundred works of art across
When: Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 3:00pm-4:00pm Organizer: NC African American Heritage Commission External URL: Registration Link Contact: Adrienne Nirde aahc@ncdcr.gov This webinar is the final installment of a six-part Zoom webinar series designed to offer guidance and strategies around how to sustain our institutions in this moment. The series will leverage the expertise of sixteen
Within the Black community, there continues to exist a deep mistrust of the medical profession, which is rooted in a history of racism, exclusion, inequality, and exploitation in the nation’s systems of healthcare. This year’s exhibition will delve into this mistrust through an exploration of the history of medicine and healthcare within the African American
Moderated by The Effective Communication Coach Denise Thomas and featuring members of America’s Black Holocaust Museum’s staff, this conversation will kick off Black History Month with an organizational update on the museum’s reemergence, a discussion on the museum’s role in honoring and sharing Black history year round, and a look ahead to what is on
The Association of African American Museums and the AAAM Emerging Museum Professionals will host an advocacy event on February 5th, 2021 at 6:00 pm ET. We request your attendance as members of the African American museum field. The program is a rapid response event based on the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and this year’s