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Experience the diverse work of Bill Tennessen, a self-taught photographer from Milwaukee, WI.
Read More >Self-Guided Tours Explore Our Online Exhibits Some Exhibits to Come – Three Centuries Of Enslavement Bibliography – Three Centuries of Enslavement A 1859 Slave Auction in Savannah, as Reported by…
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America’s Black Holocaust Museum’s founder, Dr. James Cameron, was an avid reader and inspiring writer and educator. To this day, he is the only known survivor of a lynching to write and publish a memoir about such an experience. In his honor, we created this book club in November of 2020 to bring together a community of all backgrounds to learn about and discuss our collective past, modern manifestations of racism, and how we create racial repair, reconciliation, and healing for a better the future.
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One journalist asked Black teachers which books they wanted in libraries and classrooms to encourage reading among students.
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A Reuters report reveals on politicians’ slaveholding ancestors encourages us to think critically about our nation’s past.
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Virginia is the most recent state to consider preventing teachers from educating students about Black history in America.
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New Jersey has passed a bill that will create a Black History Heritage Trail dedicated to the state’s historic Black figures.
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Some Black Americans recognize and celebrate August 8th as the date when enslaved Americans were finally granted their freedom.
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Michael Beals has been charged with criminal mischief for defacing the bronze-finished bust of Floyd on Oct. 3 in Union Square Park.
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In the same week when Juneteenth became a national holiday, schoolteachers in Texas, where the commemoration originally marked the end of slavery in that state, could teach about these events only at their peril. An author of the original Critical Race Theory explains the consequences of “erasing” the truth about our country’s history.
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