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Museums
Maryland/District of Columbia
Banneker-Douglass Museum
Annapolis, Maryland
As the State of Maryland's official museum of African American heritage, the Banneker-Douglass Museum serves to document, to interpret, and to promote African American history and culture (particularly in Maryland) through exhibitions, programs, and projects in order to improve the understanding and appreciation of America's rich cultural diversity for all.
Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Museum
Baltimore, Maryland
The campus's Frederick Douglass- Isaac Myers Maritime Museum is open to the public and chronicles the saga of Frederick Douglass' life in Baltimore as an enslaved child and young man.
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland
The museum seeks to realize its mission by collecting, preserving, interpreting, documenting and exhibiting the rich contributions of African American Marylanders from the state's earliest history to the present and the future.
The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum
Baltimore, Maryland
This unique museum, the first one of wax in Baltimore, Maryland and the first wax museum of African American history in the nation, is the brainchild of Drs. Elmer and Joanne Martin. They established the museum in 1983 with several objectives in mind: To stimulate an interest in African American history by revealing the little-known, often-neglected facts.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Washington, DC
Evansville African American Museum continues to develop a resource and cultural center to collect, preserve, and educate the public on the history and traditions of African American families, organizations, and communities.
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC
Washington, DC
The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC has the honor of being the first national museum of Native American heritage and culture and its over 800,000 items represent more than 1,200 indigenous cultures, from items and educational materials on religion, traditions, and contemporary identity to ancient artifacts and modern fine art. There is also a sister museum located in New York, NY. They host several annual celebrations and festivals that highlight the rich traditions of heritage of indigenous peoples, including a six-day celebration called the Kaypi Perú Festival, a summer Native Art Market, and an annual Hawaiian cultural celebration.
The HBCU Museum
Washington, DC
This museum not only highlights the accomplishments of Historically Black Colleges & Universities, but some of their most accomplished graduates.
Washington, DC
The Smithsonian Latino Center is the corazón of Latinidad at the Smithsonian. It works toward preserving Latino history and culture, engaging Latino communities, and advancing Latino representation in the United States. Since 1997, SLC has successfully ensured that the contributions of the Latino community are celebrated and represented throughout the Smithsonian.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington, DC
The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum teaches millions of people each year about the dangers of unchecked hatred and the need to prevent genocide.
Florida
Tampa Bay History Center
Tampa, Florida
Beginning with a look at Florida's first peoples, who inhabited the peninsula some 10,000 years ago, and the arrival of European explorers in the 1500s, to Tampa Bay's modern role as a port city, the industrial capital of west central Florida and a draw for tourists and visitors the world over, the History Center tells the story of Tampa Bay's and Florida's history, heritage and culture.
Perry Harvey Sr. Park
The park also includes an outdoor "museum" that shares lessons in Black history, told through murals and photos and pavers.
Kansas
The Kansas African American Museum
Wichita, Kansas
The Kansas African American Museum, formerly the venerable Calvary Baptist Church was once the cornerstone of Wichita's vibrant black community. It was built in 1917 when the congregation's leaders worked nights and weekends -separate and apart from their jobs to finish the church. That community featured restaurants, businesses, and homes. It hosted jazz artists, Negro League baseball stars, and was the home of America's first African American Academy Award winner and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s lawyer among others. This building stands as a monument to human endurance as well as to dignity. The people who worshiped here endured painful racial segregation and fought those conditions with dignity.
Mid-America All-Indian Museum
Wichita, Kansas
Established in 1969, the goal of the MAAIM is to educate the community about the art, culture and heritage of American Indians while recognizing the important role they play in today's society.?
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Kansas City, MO
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum showcases story of the founding of the Negro Leagues Baseball during the times of segregation and features more than Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, Satchel Paige and Hank Aaron. Take a tour to see artifacts, photos and statues of Negro League players dating from the late 1800s to the 1960s.
Louisiana
Le Musée de f.p.c
New Orleans, Louisiana
Le Musée de f.p.c., a historic house museum, is one of the country's few attractions dedicated exclusively to preserving the material culture of and telling the story of free people of color.
The founders of this repository strive through their collection of documents, paintings and decorative arts to present, interpret and preserve the history and culture shared by so many free people of African descent in New Orleans and throughout the country.
New Orleans African American Museum
New Orleans, Louisiana
The New Orleans African American Museum of Art, History and Culture (NOAAM) was founded in 1996 under the guidance and extensive support of the City of New Orleans Department of Housing and Neighborhood Development. NOAAM is located in the Tremé section of New Orleans, a neighborhood that was once home to the nation's largest, most prosperous and politically progressive community of blacks by the mid-1850s.
Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum
Hammond, Louisiana
Welcome to the Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum. Since we opened our doors in February of 2007, thousands of people have visited our museum to learn more about our African American Heritage. We have a comprehensive collection of African-American murals, artifacts, photographs and artwork that tell our story.
North Carolina
Harvey Gantt Center for African-American Arts & Culture
Charlotte, North Carolina
Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture (formerly the Afro-American Cultural Center) celebrates the contributions of Africans and African Americans to American culture and serves as a community epicenter for music, dance, theater, visual art, film, arts education programs, literature and community outreach.
International Civil Rights Center & Museum
Greensboro, North Carolina
The International Civil Rights Center & Museum is an archival center, collecting museum and teaching facility devoted to the international struggle for civil and human rights. The Museum celebrates the nonviolent protests of the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins that served as a catalyst in the civil rights movement.
Ohio
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
Since opening in 2004, it fills a substantial void in our nation's cultural heritage. Rooted in the stories of the Underground Railroad, we illuminate the true meaning of inclusive freedom by presenting permanent and special exhibits that inspire, public programming that provokes dialogue and action, and educational resources that equip modern abolitionists.
Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center exists to ensure the lessons of the Holocaust inspire action today. HHC educates about the Holocaust, remembers its victims and acts on its lessons. Through innovative programs and partnerships, HHC challenges injustice, inhumanity, and prejudice, and fosters understanding, inclusion, and engaged citizenship.
Oklahoma
Gilcrease Museum
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, known as Gilcrease Museum, houses a comprehensive collection of the art, culture and history of North America. Thomas Gilcrease, a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation, established Gilcrease Museum in 1949 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Today the interdisciplinary collection contains more than 350,000 items. The museum represents hundreds of Indigenous cultures from across North and South America, with material culture and archaeology ranging from 12,000 BCE to the 21st century. The collection includes more than 350 years of American paintings, sculptures and works on paper, including the largest public holdings of art of the American West.
Greenwood Cultural Center
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Our mission is its essence: promoting, preserving, and celebrating African American culture and
heritage. The Greenwood Cultural Center stands as a monument to the scores of pioneers, trailblazers, entrepreneurs, professionals, politicos, and citizens who created a renowned and respected community despite formidable odds. The Center serves as a marker for the Tulsa community, chronicling where we have been, where we are, and where we are going, through historical offerings, events, and youth programming.
In addition, the Greenwood Cultural Center includes exhibits about the Greenwood neighborhood, which came to be known as "the Black Wall Street." At the time, the Greenwood District was home to dozens of prominent African-American businessmen. Greenwood boasted a variety of thriving businesses that were very successful up until the events known as the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. Following the Riot, the area was rebuilt and thrived until the 1960s when desegregation allowed blacks to shop in areas from which they were previously restricted
Pennsylvania
African American Museum of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Founded in 1976, the museum has objectively interpreted and presented the achievements and aspirations of African Americans from pre-colonial times to the current day. It is committed to telling the story of African Americans in all its permutations: family life, the Civil Rights movement, arts and entertainment, sports, medicine, architecture, politics, religion, law and technology.
National Museum of American Jewish History
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The National Museum of American Jewish History, on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of Jews in America. Its purpose is to connect Jews more closely to their heritage and to inspire in people of all backgrounds a greater appreciation for the diversity of the American Jewish experience and the freedoms to which Americans aspire.
The Colored Girls Museum
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Colored Girls Museum is a memoir museum, which honors the stories, experiences, and history of Colored Girls. The Colored Girls Museum is headquartered in the historic neighborhood of Germantown in Philadelphia, an area renowned for its compliment of historic buildings and homes.
The Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The museum's mission is to
educate Delaware Valley students and adults, personalizing the Holocaust so that they learn the consequences of racism, ethnic cleansing, and intolerance. The Holocaust was a watershed event, not only in the 20th century, but in the entire history of humanity. We believe that studying and discussing the Holocaust provides one of the most effective ways to work with students to examine basic moral issues and value systems.
Tennessee
Memphis Rock 'n' Soul
Memphis, Tennessee
The Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum's exhibition about the birth of rock and soul music, created by the Smithsonian Institution, tells the story of musical pioneers who, for the love of music, overcame racial and socio-economic barriers to create the music that shook the entire world.
National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis, Tennessee
Located in the historic art district of downtown Memphis, the National Civil Rights Museum is the site of Martin Luther King's assassination at the Lorraine Hotel on April 4, 1968. The exhibit follows the civil rights movement from 1619 to 2000 and exists to show the impact of human rights movements.
Stax Museum of American Soul Music
Memphis, Tennessee
Located on the original site of the Stax Records studio in Memphis, Tenn., the Stax Museum pays special tribute to the artists who recorded there, as well as other American soul legends, with a rare and amazing collection of more than 2,000 artifacts, interactive exhibits, films and galleries.
Texas
African American Museum, Dallas
Dallas, Texas
The African American Museum is an institution dedicated to the research, identification, selection, acquisition, presentation and preservation of visual art forms and historical documents that relate to the African American community.
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
Dallas, Texas
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum tells the story of the Holocaust, the emergence of international human rights following the war, and the development of human and civil rights in America.
Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
Houston, Texas
Buffalo Soldiers, comprised of former slaves, freedmen and Black Civil War soldiers, were the first to serve during peacetime. BSNM is the only museum in the country dedicated solely to preserve, promote and perpetuate the legacy of the brave men and women who fought, bled and died in defense of America.
Holocaust Museum Houston
Houston, Texas
Holocaust Museum Houston is dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, remembering the 6 million Jews and millions of other innocent victims and honoring the survivors' legacy. Using the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides, the Museum teaches the dangers of hatred prejudice and apathy to tens of thousands of people worldwide each year.
Houston Museum of African American Culture
Houston, Texas
The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) explores stories inspired by themes of opportunity, empowerment, creativity, and innovation and cultural interrelationships through the lens of the African American experience. The Museum seeks to engage visitors of every race and background through discovery-driven learning and preserve African American history.
PODCASTS
Black Wallstreet 1921
A podcast chronicling significant and related events before, during and after "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history." The Tulsa Race Massacre
Uncivil
Uncivil brings you stories that were left out of the official history of the Civil War, ransacks America's past, and takes on the history you grew up with. We bring you untold stories about resistance, covert operations, corruption, mutiny, counterfeiting, antebellum drones, and so much more. And we connect these forgotten struggles to the political battlefield we're living on right now. The story of the Civil War – the story of slavery, confederate monuments, racism – is the story of America.
When a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved African people arrived in the English colony of Virginia, it was the beginnings of what America would become. This podcast tells the heartbreaking story that shaped our nation.
Venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and some of the world's leading economic and political thinkers dive into the inequalities in America and how we can do something about rising inequality.
Mouthpeace
Michael Bennett is an NFL defensive lineman and self-described feminist while Pele is a food advocate. They take on racial justice together. The Bennetts invite listeners and guests into provocative and personal discussions.
The Nod
Listen to stories of Black life by celebrating the genius, innovation, and resilience of what it means to be a part of the community.
Militantly Mixed
This podcast is about race and identity from the mixed-race perspective. Host Sharmane will speak with mixed-race people from all over the world about coming to terms with ethnic identity.
Everyday Conversations on Race for Everyday People
This is the podcast for you if you've ever wanted to have a conversation about race but were afraid of saying the wrong thing. Bringing people together for open, comfortable discussions about race, guests from different backgrounds come together to get the conversations going.
Books
The Color of Water, by James McBride
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Tatooist of Auschwitz, by Heather Morris.
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Books-Discrimination-Racism/zgbs/books/11249
Movies
When They See Us
Higher Learning
The Hate U Give
Just Mercy
Loving
The Kalief Browder Story
LA92
Fruitvale Station
Do the Right Thing
I Am Not Your Negro
RACE
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https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/21st-century-movies-for-social-justice/
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2547580/great-movies-that-explore-race-and-social-justice
TED Talks
We Need to Talk About an Injustice
In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.
The Urgency of Intersectionality
Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.
How to Deconstruct Racism
Baratunde Thurston explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on black Americans who have committed the crimes of ... eating, walking or generally "living while black." In this profound, thought-provoking and often hilarious talk, he reveals the power of language to change stories of trauma into stories of healing -- while challenging us all to level up.
Other
NCAA Social Series Videos