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This article touches on AfriCOBRA, an organization that helped push the black arts movement forward.
Why haven’t more people heard about Bayard Rustin? Rustin organized sit-ins and freedom rides some twenty years before the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. He was the person who convinced Dr. King to use nonviolence in the Montgomery bus boycott, and he organized King’s 1963 March on Washington. Learn why Bayard Rustin remains an unsung hero despite his groundbreaking work over a long lifetime.
Hamden Rice writes about Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact his life has on Black Americans who lived in terror of white violence.
Alex Haley, author of Roots and other groundbreaking racial texts, was born in Ithaca in 1921.
When will it just be accepted and not a novelty for a Black Entertainer to come out openly Gay? Frank Ocean made headlines last year with his announcement but was it really a step forward for the Black LGBT community? While we can all agree that what he did took courage it is about time that it shouldn’t have to.
Black History Month is well known, but the history of Black people before slavery is still a mystery to most people.
Edward Wyckoff Williams examines why Americans are so uncomfortable with certain people exercising their second amendment rights.
Henry Hampton, whose work includes documentaries about the Civil Rights Movement, was born today.
One person explains how violence at the hands of vigilantes and police are modern-day lynchings of Black people.
Learn about ABHvM’s Four Themes – Remembrance, Resistance, Redemption, and Reconciliation – and how they thread through the museum’s exhibits.