Founded in 1991, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) is, according to its website, “the world’s only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of African-American baseball and its impact on the social advancement of A...
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Founded in 1991 by the Natchez Association for the Preservation of African American Culture, this museum is located in Natchez, Mississippi. The organization, whose mission is to examine and present the many contributions Natchez persons of Afric...
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Originally known as the Hitsville U.S.A. building, the Motown Museum honors the enduring and massive impact of the Motown Records Corporation. Located at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan, the museum is a historical salute to the imm...
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In Menabe, Madagascar, there is a large, arid region that is abundant with a unique species of trees, the Adansonia granddieri. In that region, a dirt road which links the towns of Morondava to Belo Tsiribihina is lined with numerous and...
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Located feet away from the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, the mission of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, according to its website, “is to reveal stories of freedom’s heroes, from the era of the Underground Railroad t...
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Built circa 1870 and located at 762 Martin Street in the Southwest Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this three-story, Italianate brick house was the home of African-American vocal great, civil rights activist and ph...
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Located in Washington Park of the historic Hyde Park area of Chicago, the DuSable Museum of African American History is one of the few independent institutions of its kind in the United States. It is named in honor of Jean-Baptist Point DuSab...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) is one of the greatest writers of America history and in African-American culture. He excelled as a poet as well as a librettist, an arts collaborator, a social commentator, an academy co-founder and author.&n...
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When you think of the Low Country region in the United States, you readily envision the Sea Islands, areas along the southeastern coastlines of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. These islands, of which there are more than one hundred, are...
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The beauty and majesty of Africa are enchanting. In Nairobi, Kenya, visitors may experience this enchantment at Giraffe Manor, an exclusive hotel that has been attracting lodgers since the 1930s, approximately four decades after Europeans beg...
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