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Black
Museums
from
coast to
coast
collaborate
to
launch
Blkfreedom.Org
A Launch
to
Commemorate
the
155th
Anniversary
of
Juneteenth
DETROIT,
MI - On
June
19th,
six
leading
Black
museums
and
historical
institutions
will
join
forces
to
launch
BLKFREEDOM.org,
a
digital
commemoration
of
Juneteenth.
BLKFREEDOM.org
will air
an
original
video
presentation
featuring
appearances
from
Lonnie
G. Bunch
III, the
first
African
American
and
historian
to serve
as the
Secretary
of the
Smithsonian
Institution,
as well
as Dr.
Johnetta
Betsch
Cole,
anthropologist,
educator,
museum
director,
and the
first
female
African
American
president
of
Spelman
College,
along
with the
Honorable
Carla
Hayden,
Librarian
of
Congress,
the
first
woman
and the
first
African
American
to lead
the
national
library.
The
program
will
premiere
at 12:00
PM EST
on June
19th,
2020.
BLKFREEDOM.org
commemorates
the
155th
Anniversary
of
Juneteenth.
Juneteenth
dates
back to
June 19,
1865
when
union
soldier,
Major
General
Gordon
Granger,
landed
at
Galveston,
Texas
with the
news
that the
war had
ended
and that
the
enslaved
were
free.
This
announcement
was more
than two
and half
years
after
President
Lincoln
signed
the
Emancipation
Proclamation.
BLKFREEDOM.org
is a
combined
effort
between
Charles
H.
Wright
Museum
of
African
American
History
(Detroit,
MI),
Historic
Mitchelville
Freedom
Park
(Hill
Head
Island,
SC),
Northwest
African
American
Museum
(Seattle,
WA),
Black
Archives
Historic
Lyric
Theater
(Miami,
FL),
National
Underground
Railroad
Freedom
Center
(Cincinnati,
OH), and
the
National
Civil
Rights
Museum
(Memphis,
TN).
Through
educational
content,
artistic
performances,
and
shareable
discussion
prompts,
this
collaborative
explores
the
meaning
and
relevance
of
“Freedom”,
“Justice”
and
“Democracy”
in
African
American
life.
For more
information,
visit
www.blkfreedom.org.
About
the
Charles
H.
Wright
Museum
of
African
American
History
The
Charles
H.
Wright
Museum
of
African
American
History
was
founded
in 1965
and is
located
in the
heart of
Midtown
Detroit’s
Cultural
Center.
The
Wright
Museum’s
mission
is to
open
minds
and
change
lives
through
the
exploration
and
celebration
of
African
American
history
and
culture.
And
Still We
Rise:
Our
Journey
Through
African
American
History
and
Culture
— the
museum’s
22,000
square
foot,
immersive
core
exhibit
— is the
largest,
single
exhibition
surveying
the
history
of
African
Americans.
The
Wright
Museum
houses
over
35,000
artifacts
and
archival
materials,
and
offers
more
than 300
public
programs
and
events
annually.
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