Exhibit to explore history of blacks in medicine during Civil War
theGRIO REPORT - 'Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries' explores African-Americans' contributions as nurses, surgeons and hospital staff during the Civil War...
Museum to open balcony where MLK was shot to public
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis plans to open the balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to the public...
New Nigeria museum honors late Afrobeat singer Fela Kuti
theGRIO REPORT - Kingston, Jamaica has the Bob Marley Museum. Memphis, Tennessee has Elvis Presley’s Graceland. For the first time ever, fans of the Nigerian superstar Fela Kuti can visit the Kalakuta Museum in Lagos, Nigeria...
Grammy Museum to feature Whitney Houston exhibit
A special exhibit in the Los Angeles Grammy Museum will showcase memorabilia from the life of late the Whitney Houston...
Google offering indoor maps for black museums
VIDEO - Google Maps is offering indoor maps and walking tours of 20 American museums, including the de Young Museum in San Francisco...
New Michigan museum showcases racist artifacts
BIG RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The objects displayed in Michigan's newest museum range from the ordinary, such as simple ashtrays and fishing lures, to the grotesque -- a full-size replica of a lynching tree...
Debt-ridden National Slavery Museum headed to bankruptcy court
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - An attorney for the U.S. National Slavery Museum is headed back to bankruptcy court to outline a reorganization plan for the debt-ridden dream of former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder...
African-American history museum to open in 2015
From Bloomberg Businessweek-- The $500 million branch of the Smithsonian in Washington breaks ground tomorrow for an opening in the autumn of 2015...
Museums highlight Black History Month
The exhibit includes artifacts excavated at Monticello and objects from the Smithsonian's collection, including a set of slave shackles and the lap desk Jefferson used to write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence...
Underground Railroad museum faces closure
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center could possibly be closing its doors due to financial troubles...
