The Hip-Hop Kickstarter campaign aligns with NMAAHC’s mission to tell the American story through the African American Lens. In partnership with Smithsonian Folkways and the hip-hop community, the National Museum of African American History and Culture launched a Kickstarter campaign to produce a Hip-Hop and Rap Anthology. Kickstarter is an online global crowdfunding campaign to support […]
Prince's Minneapolis home and studio, Paisley Park, will be open to the public as a museum come October.
Remember when mom told you not to put your hands on something because you might break it? Somebody didn’t hear the conversation. A 55 year old man may be responsible for the cost of repair. Huffington Post has the story.
On April 26th at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan, a black collector of antiques named David Pilgrim will open the first Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. Pilgrim, a sociology Professor at Ferris, has spent decades collecting racist memorabilia and will now present thousands of pieces of historical artifacts in one museum. Visitors […]
It is a museum which is probably best avoided for those with a sensitive disposition. Provocative exhibits at one of America’s newest museum’s include a full-size replica of a lynching tree with many items portraying black men as lazy, violent or inarticulate. The objects displayed in the U.S. state of Michigan’s newest museum are steeped in […]
WASHINGTON DC — With this year marking the 150 anniversary of the American Civil War, a new, fully-renovated African-American Civil War Museum is set to open its door on July 18 in Washignton DC. The museum now houses 5,ooo square feet of exhibits that commemorates the sacrifice of African-American soldiers in the war, compared to […]
