Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The opening of the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, Ohio, in April 1988 marked the completion of ...

December 20, 2023 • The museum celebrated the 20th anniversary of legislation that funded it this week, but it can trace its origins back to Black veterans who fought for the Union Army in the Civil ...

When peals ring out from a 130-year-old church bell at the Sept. 24 dedication ceremony for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, they will signal the end of a long journey. The ...

WASHINGTON ‒ A coalition of civil rights leaders kicked off a weeklong campaign to rally around the national African American museum and push back against what it calls efforts by the Trump ...

After 13 years of planning, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened its doors recently and its first public event included a Springfield connection. It joins 17 other ...

Many people know about the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., that opened in 2016. A lesser-known fact is that the first national ...