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Smithsonian receives rare Harriet Tubman items
1:21 PM on 03/11/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tourists and history buffs will be able to see some rare, personal belongings of abolitionist Harriet Tubman when a museum of African-American history opens on the National Mall...
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Museum struggles with 'that word' in Huckleberry Finn
3:52 PM on 02/11/2010
The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford struggles with the use of the n-word in "Huckleberry Finn", 125 years later...
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American Airlines honors black aviation pioneers with new virtual museum
11:20 AM on 02/11/2010
The virtual museum is a Web site that provides written profiles along with video interviews, photos and historical documents to cover this chapter in American history...
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TheGrio's 100: Spirit Trickey-Rowan, educating the next generation
10:00 AM on 02/06/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Whether I'm here at the historic site or through artistic means like a play, I want to keep this history alive...
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Exhibit celebrates indelible imprint of blacks on history
9:45 AM on 02/01/2010
From The LA Times - History depends on who's doing the telling. When I was her age, people of color were asterisks, not narrators. Tomorrow's version will depend on today's storytellers...
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"Freedom's Sisters" exhibit opens in Chicago
5:58 PM on 01/25/2010
CHICAGO (AP) - An interactive exhibit chronicling the lives of 20 black women who played roles in the struggle for civil rights and equality opened in Chicago this weekend...
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Negro league player's legacy causing divisions at baseball museum
11:55 AM on 12/07/2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - This is a critical time for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum as it winds down a rough financial year and prepares for its 20th anniversary...
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African-American museum will get prime spot on DC mall
10:04 AM on 12/04/2009
The proposed Museum of African American History and Culture is slated to be built at one of the National Mall's most prominent spots...
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Museum to commemorate 'Little Rock Nine'
2:24 PM on 11/23/2009
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Every day before heading to Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957, nine black students gathered to prepare for the angry mob they faced...
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Museum to preserve Woolworth's lunch counter - and legacy of civil rights fight
9:00 AM on 11/17/2009
OPINION - Does the current rise of minorities in American society signify the end of a fight for civil equality?
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Museum named in honor of Charlotte's first black mayor
7:31 AM on 10/27/2009
VIDEO - With the opening of the Harvey Gantt Museum in Charlotte, a page of history is turned by a notable historian himself...
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Uncle Remus museum still grapples with race issues
11:40 AM on 10/26/2009
Elementary school students in the room shriek with delight at Wren's Nest, the very house where newspaperman and author Joel Chandler Harris brought the mischievous characters...
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The Smithsonian accepts Emmett Till's casket
5:02 PM on 09/03/2009
From our friends at essence.com: After 54 years, the story of Emmett Till is still making news. Till was just 14 years old when he was brutally beaten, shot in the head, and dumped in Mississippi's Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a White woman. His mother, Mamie Till Mobley,...
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Wax figure of Michael Jackson unveiled
11:55 AM on 08/28/2009
Michael Jackson's music will live on long after his death, and so will his image, in several different ways.
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