Top Black History Month Cultural Centers

Whether it’s the MLK National Historic Site, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum or the National Museum of African Art, some of America’s top black history museums and cultural centers have become destinations in themselves. We compiled this list based on the popularity of the museums and the noteworthy artifacts that they have in their possessions. [...]

Crowning Glories: Status, Style, and Self-Expression

Crowning Glories is a tribute to the beauty, style, and self-expression of black women, and a historical survey of their hat-wearing traditions from the late 1700s to the present. The tradition of African American women adorning themselves with extraordinary headwear goes back generations. Wrapping one’s head with cloth, for example, finds its roots among West [...]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Remembered

Martin Luther King Jr. w/ President Lyndon Johnson in the background. I Have A Dream…….. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand [...]

Frederick Douglass Isaac Myers Maritime Park | Baltimore, MD

First run of a replica marine railway & drydock system at the Frederick Douglass Isaac Myers Maritime Park. Located in historic Fell’s Point in Baltimore, Maryland, the Frederick Douglass Isaac Myers Maritime Park is a national heritage site that highlights: Maryland’s African American maritime history The saga of Frederick Douglass’s life in Baltimore as an [...]

UK Black History Month | London, England

While Blacks in the U.S. may lament the celebration of Black History Month in February — the shortest month of the calendar year— Black Brits have the luxury of celebrating the contributions of their ancestors in one of the longest months — October. Black History in England was first celebrated in 1987. The month of October was [...]

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