This vast private collection of Africa Diaspora, especially African-American, culture curated by husband-and-wife, Bernard and Shirley (née Pooler) Kinsey is critical to better understanding the innumerable contributions that persons of African de...
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Established in 1992, AFRICA OYÉ is the largest celebration of African culture, including music, in the United Kingdom!
Numerous are the historical and contemporary negative representations, such as corruption, disease, poverty and violen...
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CaribBeing is based within the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. It is, according to its website, a “thriving cultural organization that stands at the crossroads of film + art + culture … [that] spans contemp...
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The Africa Center is located at 1280 Fifth Avenue in New York City New York. Situated at the intersection of 110th and Fifth Avenues, it is one of the many cultural institutions on Museum Mile.
Its designation to be developed in Harl...
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Located at Rue NG-34 in Ngor, northwest of Dakar, in Senegal, the Musée Boribana is the only museum in the country whose mission is centered upon modern African art.
It was founded and curated in 1997 by acclaimed anthropologist, Boubacar K...
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Proudly inviting visitors to “experience 6,000 years of African world history”, the African Museum Casa del Rey Moro is located at 2471 Congress Street in San Diego, California. Its content is centered upon the past and present of the Africa ...
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Located at 134 S. Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina, the International Civil Rights Center and Museum (ICRCM) opened its doors on February 1, 2010. This date marks exactly fifty years after four African-American university students bra...
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The Obsidian Collection is an initiative that seeks to enlighten present and future generations by preservation and dissemination of images of Black life sourced from Black legacy newspapers and Black photographers.
All too often, Black newspape...
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In 1985, Coretta Scott King, the widow of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., requested scholar and historian Clayborne Carson to act as the senior editor of a forthcoming collection of her late husband’s writings.
Carson readily understo...
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Situated among Auburn, Edgewood, Irwin, Jackson and Randolph Avenues in Atlanta, Georgia, The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site is a complex of buildings integral to the life and legacy of the esteemed Nobel Peace Prize recipient. ...
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