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The new museum was renamed the Museum of the African Diaspora to reflect a broadened scope and mission, and incorporated as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization. The space was designed by the Freelon Group within the St. Regis Museum Tower, a 42-story skyscraper that apart from the museum consists of luxury condominiums and a five-star hotel ...
Afro-American Historical and Cultural Society Museum: Jersey City: New Jersey: 1984 [26] Alabama State Black Archives Research Center and Museum: Huntsville: Alabama: 1990 [27] Alexandria Black History Museum: Alexandria: Virginia: 1987 [28] [b] America's Black Holocaust Museum: Milwaukee: Wisconsin: 1988 [29] Anacostia Museum: Washington: D.C ...
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
While working at the Brooklyn Museum, she co-curated a show called “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85.” ... Hockley expects to see more Black museum-goers when SF MOMA’s ...
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first female Black principal in NYC.
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The Legion of Honor was inspired by the French pavilion, a replica of the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur in Paris, at San Francisco's Panama–Pacific International Exposition of 1915. The museum opened in 1924 in the Beaux Arts–style building designed by George Applegarth on a bluff overlooking the Golden Gate. In 1995, the Legion of Honor ...
At the end of the American Revolution, one in three black inhabitants in Brooklyn were enslaved, a statistic that inevitably drove a wave of activism in the years to come.