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“Christian Race” Venue Won’t Do Mixed Race Weddings
An event venue employee saying they won’t host mixed race or gay weddings because of her Christian religious beliefs has gone viral, sparking an uproar on social media.
Read MoreABHM Welcomes Its New President and CEO on 9/3/19!
Milwaukee, WI — The Dr. James Cameron Legacy Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Robert “Bert” Davis has been selected as the new President and CEO of America’s Black Holocaust Museum. He will be stepping into his new role on Tuesday, September 3, 2019. Dr. Davis assumes leadership on the eve of the re-opening…
Read MoreFighting Racism…Especially Where We Don’t Realize It Exists
In his new book, award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi “pushes those of us who believe we are not racists to become something else: antiracists, who support ideas and policies affirming that “the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences — that there is nothing right or wrong with any racial group.” A book review by historian Jeffrey C, Stewart.
Read MoreByron Allen on the 400th Anniversary Of Slavery In America
Reconstruction law meant to protect civil rights of black businesses is being challenged by Trump DOJ in the Supreme Court.
Read MoreBlack Rag Dolls Designed to Be Abused Pulled From Store Shelves in New Jersey
Learn how to physically abuse children early by practicing on a Black Rag Doll.
Read MoreThe Great Land Robbery
The loss of millions of acres of land by black families is a historical fact and a present danger. Some federal, state and local agencies continue to make money available to white applicants while denying money to black applicants resulting in land loss.
Read MoreToni Morrison obituary
Toni Morrison was sometimes criticized for not writing about white people (she denied this), and she made no apologies for writing for “black people.” She wrote the stories that she wanted to read, because no one else was writing them.
Read MoreDesigning Their Own Black Future
Black students in White town are not waiting for the adults to lead them into a new future. They are designing their own.
Read MoreABHM Founder’s Day Gathering 2016: Black Voices Matter!
ABHM Founder’s Day Gathering 2016: Black Voices Matter! About ABHM Which Musical Artist Was a Principal Financier of the Civil Rights Movement? Turning the Tables on Civil Rights: The 1970s and 1980s The Speech That Shocked Birmingham the Day After the Church Bombing The Double Struggles of June Jordan, Poet and Social Activist Some Exhibits…
Read MoreFoundation Consortium Acquires Historic African American Photographic Archive
The Smithsonian Foundation’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Getty Research Institute, and other leading cultural institutions will soon house the archive of Johnson Publishing Company (JPC), publisher of the iconic Ebony and Jet magazines. These archives comprise the most significant collection of photographs cataloguing African American life in the 20th century, “documenting an essential part of American history over an extraordinary period.”
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