Posts Tagged ‘MLK’
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration
ABHM will be open on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year, 10 AM to 5 PM. Enjoy a self-guided experience or on one of our Griot-guided tours at 10:30 or 11:30 AM (included with admission).
Read MoreABHM Book Club: Where Do We Go From Here by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
We are pleased to announce ABHM’s January Book of the Month: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We invite you to join us on January 24 at 1:30 p.m. for a discussion of the book at America’s Black Holocaust Museum or virtually via Zoom.
Read MoreRemembering Rev. James Lawson, Pioneer Of Nonviolent Protest
Nonviolence movement leader Reverend James Lawson, who MLK called “the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world,” has died at age 95.
Read MoreOn King’s holiday, daughter calls for bold action over words
Rev. Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., spoke to a crowd about the lack of progress made by the civil rights movement.
Read MoreABHM Book Club Presents: The Three Mothers
In honor of the upcoming MLK Day, we have selected a book that covers the 60’s Civil Rights Movement from a perspective of the mothers of Dr. MLK Jr., James Baldwin, and Malcolm X.
Read MoreCivil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up bus seat, seeks to expunge record
Colvin’s legal team told CNN it plans to file paperwork to have the now-82-year-old woman’s 1955 arrest record cleared.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – ‘MLK/FBI’ Director Sam Pollard on Filmmaking After BLM: ‘You’ve Got to Keep Pushing’
The Oscar nominee and three-time Emmy winner, Sam Pollard shares how the time is right for “MLK/FBI,” similarities between King’s time and now and why we have to keep pushing through the “continual struggle.”
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