Black museums

Celebrating Black History Month, we hit up Harlem for a new art exhibit from the eyes of 17 Black artists with vivid American stories to tell.

The Black art movement in Florida is getting a huge pay day thanks to lawmakers that were able to secure $30 million in funding for African American history museums that could use the financial help within the state.

Dr. Justina L. Ford was a pioneering physician who practiced medicine in Colorado, despite facing the barriers of race and gender. Dr. Ford, better known as the “Lady Doctor,” was rumored to have delivered 7,000 babies in her lifetime and was the lone Black female doctor in the state for the first half of the […]

Dr. William Monroe Wells was one of the first Black doctors in Orlando, Fla., and used his resources to create a hub for African-Americans that exists today as a destination for the city’s rich Black culture. The Wells’ Built Museum of African American History and Culture stands as a living testimony to Dr. Wells’ commitment […]

The founder of an African-American Museum in Baton Rouge, LA was found dead in the trunk of a car three miles from her home.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Lonnie Bunch started working on the Smithsonian’s first black museum, he had no collection, no building and one employee. The Smithsonian Institution rewarded the founding director of the wildly popular museum on Tuesday by putting him in charge of all 19 of its museums, making Bunch the 14th secretary of the […]

A pilot program allows entry without timed passes.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture will finally appear on a stamp beginning next month following a postponement by the US Postal Service. The “Celebrating African American History and Culture Forever stamp,” part of the US Postal Services Forever series, recognizes the richness of Black history and its intrinsic connection to American […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The owners who restored Muhammad Ali’s boyhood home in Kentucky and opened it as a museum say it may have to close because of financial difficulties. The pink home where Ali — known then as Cassius Clay — dreamed of boxing greatness has drawn more than 10,000 visitors since opening last […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The owners who restored Muhammad Ali’s boyhood home in Kentucky and opened it as a museum say it may have to close because of financial difficulties. The pink home where Ali — known then as Cassius Clay — dreamed of boxing greatness has drawn more than 10,000 visitors since opening last […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s newest museum brings to life all the pain and tribulations of the black experience and its creators expect many visitors will be shaken by what they see and hear. Slave shackles sit ominously in a glass case, surrounded by whispering hymns of past pains. Nearby are artifacts from a slave ship […]

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lonnie Bunch leans forward to peer inside a slave cabin from Edisto Island, South Carolina. The dark and cramped interior defies his attempts to showcase the small living space its occupants subsisted on. Bunch flips on the flashlight on a borrowed smartphone, illuminating for his guests the craftsmanship, the hard work […]