Chicago Police traumatizing innocent children with wrong raids!

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Chicago Police traumatizing innocent children with wrong raids!
The Chicago police had a search warrant for their arrest but for the previous tenants.
It was the morning of Friday, March 15th in Chicago, the morning of a homegoing service for a family member. Ms. Wilson, a Black single mother and a Registered Nurse of two adult children and three young kids had family members stay at her home that morning.
The nightmare began a little before 6 AM when the Chicago Police Department squad team, tackle team, and other officers surrounded their home, flashing lights and guns drawn. “Come out now for your safety. Ms. Wilson came out and announced she had young kids in the house with her. They came out one by one, and the officers handcuffed the mother, the two adult children, and the 8-year-old boy for over 40 minutes in rainy, 32-degree weather. The younger girl was not handcuffed, but maybe because there were no more handcuffs.  The other two younger kids were traumatized. The officers cursed at both the adults and the kids during this raid. The officers did not allow the mother and the three young children to go back into their own home for almost 2 hours. Once they were let in, they were in detention for hours inside their own home.
 The police had a search warrant for their arrest, but for the previous tenants.
“I know what was going to happen. I was just scared, my legs were shaking. I was worried about my sister the most because she was only 6 years old. I thought that my family was going to get taken away from me.”
-Royal Wilson

The Chicago police had a search warrant to their arrest but for the previous tenants.

Once they raided the home, they created a large hole in the second-floor ceiling. They searched the house and threw out clothes and papers everywhere, including mattresses. They even took $24 from the 8-year-old’s room. After the officers had completed the raid and realized they were searching for the wrong people, the mother asked an officer, What’s going to fix my home? He didn’t respond. They didn’t apologize at all and just left while the mom had an emotional breakdown. After the raid, the 8-year-old had a flair of asthma from the trauma. All three of the young children refuse to sleep in their beds due to fear. They do not sleep through the night from the injury, and they are afraid to leave their mom to go to school.
The police violated their 4th amendment law.
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The full statement from Chicago Police provided to CBS 2 via email on May 24, 2019, “The Chicago Police Department makes every effort to ensure the validity and accuracy of all information used to apply for and execute search warrants. In this instance, officers had information that there was an assault rifle located inside a residence on the 8900 Block of South Laflin. Due to the risk involved with a weapon that could penetrate body armour, the occupants of the residence followed the verbal direction given over a public address system and exited the residence without needing to breach the door. The target of the search warrant was on the scene, and while there was no weapon located during the search, the location searched was the same as described on the search warrant.”
Why do the police point guns at children? The police violated their 4th amendment law. How can we read a story like this as parents?
Attorney Al Hofeld Jr. plans to file a lawsuit against the city on behalf of the Wilson family. It will be his fifth case involving a raid by Chicago Police where families allege guns were pointed at children, traumatizing them. And feel comfortable with the police force here in Chicago.
CBS 2’s ongoing investigation into how wrong police raids affect children to proposed legislation. House Bill1, introduced by Senator Jacqueline Collins (D-District 16), passed the Senate with a unanimous vote on May 28 and is now headed to the House for a vote. It outlines steps officers would have to take when children are present during police activity to ensure they are safe from harm, both physically and psychologically.

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Work Cited
Another Family Says Chicago Police Pointed Guns at …. https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/05/28/another-family-says-chicago-police-pointed-guns-at-children-during-raid-handcuffed-8-year-old/

Episode 8: Life as a Black male in Chicago during the 1960s

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Episode 8: Life as a Black male in Chicago during the 1960s
 
Introduction
  • Born in Chicago in the 1950s
MLK Jr.
  • Turned on the TV and heard he was shot and told his mom
  • He remembered the most that the HS kids throwing bottles
  • Closest he had seen to civil war
  • 1968 was the worst year he had ever seen
Serving in the Military
  • He did not serve in the military
  • His father and uncle served in the war
  • He remembered his family saying Why are you guys fighting for the white men?”
Black Panthers
  • People thought very highly of him
  • Some believed they were the most dangerous people in America
  • The story about Black Panthers
How can we help the Black community
Work in the system in the solution
Black President help contribute
Who he believes to be an Inspiration to black men from our history
George Jackson
 
 

Memorial Day was started by former slaves

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Memorial Day was started by former slaves

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States. The day is to remember and honor people who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.  What most people do not know is that Memorial Day was started by former slaves!

Memorial Day Black Soldiers
Blackamericaweb.com

In his book Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, Professor David W. Blight made the case that former slaves started Memorial Day.  On May 1, 1865, in Charleston, South Carolina they honored 257 dead Union Soldiers. They had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp.

They dug up the bodies and worked for 2 weeks to give them a proper burial as gratitude for fighting for their freedom.  They held a parade of 10,000 people led by 2,800 Black children. They were newly enrolled in freedmen’s schools, mutual aid societies, Union troops, black ministers, and white northern missionaries.  They marched, sang, celebrated, and built an enclosure and an arch labelled,Martyrs of the Race Course.

In 1868 Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868. The head of an organization of Union veterans established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. 

General Logan declared it to be celebrated on May 30th of each year.  Many will say that this event was not the origin of the modern holiday observation.  It was officially known as Decoration Day.  On the first Decoration Day, General James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, after which 5,000 participants helped to decorate the graves of the more than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers buried in the cemetery.   In 1971, Congress declared Memorial Day a national holiday to be celebrated on the last Monday in May.

This was the first Memorial Day. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.”

– David W. Blight
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Sources:
The Origin Of Memorial Day By Thought Provoking Perspectives
https://thoughtprovokingperspectives.wordpress.com/2017/05/29/the-origin-of-memorial-day/
The First Memorial Day: May 1, 1865, reported in the Charleston Daily Courier
https://www.readthespirit.com/explore/the-first-memorial-day-may-1-1865-reported-in-the-charleston/

Literacy and Writing Contest for Black Youth

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Literacy and Writing Contest for Black Youth
My 7-year-old LOVES reading, but writing isn’t his favorite forte. However, he loves a challenge and a good win. I think it’s great that some of these publishing companies and businesses have contests for kids during the summer to encourage them to continue reading and writing even when they are not in school. Take a look at some of these contests for your kids:
2019 African American Voices in Children’s Literature Writing Contest
Deadline: June 30, 2019
Eligibility: African American heritage, a resident of Minnesota and
at least 18 years of age
Details: Eligible entries will include original fiction or nonfiction manuscripts for ages 0–4 (50–125 words) or ages 4–8 (300–800 words) featuring contemporary African American characters and culture and focusing on one or more of the following topics: character development, self-esteem, diversity, getting along with others, engaging with family and community, or other topics related to positive childhood development.
Award & Prize: $1,000 cash prize, a T-shirt from Strive, a tote bag from Free Spirit, and a meeting with Mary Taris, founder of Strive, and an editor from Free Spirit to discuss the winner’s project. The winning submission will be seriously considered for publication by Free Spirit, cobranded with Strive; however, the publication is not guaranteed.
Second Place: $500 cash prize, a T-shirt from Strive, and a tote bag from Free Spirit
Third Place: $250 cash prize, a T-shirt from Strive, and a tote bag from Free Spirit
Apply here
8TH ANNUAL “I GOT BANK!” FINANCIAL LITERACY CONTEST
Deadline: submissions must be postmarked or emailed by June 15, 2018.
Eligibility: between the ages of 8 – 12 years old
Simply either write and submit a 250-word essay or create and submit an art project about what you learned from the book “I Got Bank!” (or from another financial literacy book available in your library or home) and how you can use what you learned in your life or the life of your family.
Award & Prize: $1,000
For more details
Summer Reading Programs
Amazon Summer Reading Program
  1. Read any 8 books (Your choice from a list provided)
  2. Keep track and have your list complete by September 10 (The Westling Game, A Wrinkle in Time, Nanny Paws).
  3. Get a Star Reader Certificate choice 1 free book
Barnes and Noble Summer Reading Program for Kids (Summer 2019)
The Barnes and Noble summer reading program for kids gives kids a free book when they read 8 books over the summer.
The Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Program is here to help you on your way, encouraging you to read books of your own choosing and earn a FREE book, simply by following these three easy steps:
  1. Read any eight books this summer and record them in your Summer Reading Journal (English or Español). Tell us which part of the book is your favorite, and why.
  2. Bring your completed journal to a Barnes & Noble store between May 15th and September 3rd, 2018. Find a Store
  3. Choose your FREE reading adventure from the book list featured on the back of the journal.
Educators: Download more information here (PDF)
Reward Your Kids With Family Fun
Download, print and track progress on our Chuck E. Cheese’s Rewards Calendars and Behavior Charts for Kids. Print out your report and bring it into any Chuck E Cheese for 10 points.
Your local Public Library
Each city and suburb has its own reading challenge for kids 0+. The library has its own rules and prizes, so contact your local library for more details.

Grants and scholarships for minority students

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Grants and scholarships for minority students
As a college educator, within the last 19 years of teaching, I have seen a decrease in black students in my classes. Some of them enroll at the beginning and then disappear during the middle of the semester. A few of them have even expressed to me that finances have been an issue for continuing, while others have said that family issues and circumstances have kept them from finishing. This last semester, Spring of 2019 I only had 3 Black students out of 64 with 2 males and 1 female.
THANK YOU, Robert F. Smith, to the founder and CEO of the private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. He is the angel who answered a lot of prayers for students and their families at the graduation of Morehouse College. If you haven’t heard by now, he and his family set up a grant to pay off the student loans of nearly 400 graduating seniors. The total gift is estimated at $40 million, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Today, the average debt at graduation stands at around $30,000, triple what it was in the early 1990s. I hope this is a trend for all of the Black, successful millionaires around the country. Paying it forward is very powerful.
According to The National Center for Education Statistics, Black women are now the most educated group in the United States In 2016, a greater percentage of undergraduates were female than male across all racial/ethnic groups but this was widest for Black students (62 vs. 38 percent).
According to Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, Black college graduates owe $7,400 more on average than their white peers when they earn their bachelor’s degrees.
Here are some grant and scholarship options for Black (other minority) students who are applying with Deadlines for Summer 2019 through 2020.
American Bus Association Scholarship
  • Application Deadline: Varies
  • Amount: $5,000
The Diversity Scholarship focuses on broadening the number of traditionally underrepresented groups in the management and operation ranks of the transportation, travel, and tourism industry.
Eligible candidates must have completed, at a minimum, their first year of college at an accredited university; must have a declared major or course of study relevant to the transportation, travel, and tourism industry; and must have a cumulative 3.0 GPA. Applicants are required to submit a 500-word essay discussing the role they hope to play in advancing the future of the transportation, motorcoach, travel, and tourism/hospitality industry. For more information or to apply, please visit the scholarship provider’s website.
American Library Association Spectrum Scholarship
Application Deadline: 3/1/2020
  • Amount: $5,000
Scholarship Description
  • The LITA/LSSI Minority Scholarship, established in 1994, is awarded annually by the Library and Information Technology Association, a division of the American Library Association, and Library Systems and Services, Inc.
    The scholarship is designed to encourage the entry of qualified persons into the library and automation field who plan to follow a career in that field; who demonstrate potential in, and a strong commitment to the use of automated systems in libraries; and who are qualified members of a principal minority group (American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian or Pacific Islander, African-American, or Hispanic). The recipient must be a U.S. or Canadian citizen. This scholarship is for study in an ALA Accredited Master of Library Science (MLS) program. For more information or to apply, please visit the scholarship provider’s website.
American Sociology Association Minority Fellowship Program
Deadline: January 31
Amount: $18,000
Scholarship Description
ASA Minority Fellowship Program is open to new or continuing minority graduate students. Applicants must be applying to or enrolled in sociology departments with a strong focus on mental health research programs.
Applicants must be members of one of the following racial/ethnic groups: Blacks/African Americans, Latinos (Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans), American Indians or Alaskan Natives, and Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian), or Pacific Islanders (Hawaiian, Guamanian, Samoan, Filipino). The fellowship includes a stipend and some funding for travel to the ASA Annual Meeting each August, regional or association meetings in the spring or fall, and professional development training programs and workshops.
Eligible students must be minority students entering a doctoral program in sociology for the first time or for those who are in the early stages of their graduate programs. Fellows are selected based on their commitment to research in mental health and mental illness, academic achievement, scholarship, writing ability, research potential, financial need, and racial/ethnic minority background.
Amos & Edith Wallace Scholarship
  • Application Deadline: 4/12/2020
  • Amount: $1,000
Scholarship Description
  • The Amos and Edith Wallace Scholarship were founded to reward young, bright African-American students who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to service and education. In order to apply, you must meet the following requirements: Female African- American High School senior graduating from Kankakee High School in Kankakee, IL. You must possess a minimum of 2.8 GPA and plan to attend a four-year accredited college or university in the fall. A 400-600 word essay must also be included with the application. For more information or to apply, please visit www.wallacescholar.org
American Meteorological Society (AMS) Scholarships (Multiple)
Application Deadline: 2/8/2020 for Minority, but other grants vary
Amount: $6,000
Scholarship Description
The AMS Minority Scholarships will award funding to minority students who have been traditionally underrepresented in the sciences, especially Hispanic, Native American, and Black/African American students. Funding for the scholarships is provided by donations made by members of the AMS Giving Program. The two-year scholarship is distributed once per year during freshman and sophomore years (second-year funding depends on the successful completion of the first academic year).
Applicants must be U.S. citizens or hold permanent resident status and must be minority students who will be entering their freshman year of college in the fall. To be eligible, students must plan to pursue careers in the atmospheric or related oceanic and hydrologic sciences. Marine Biology is not eligible.
Blacks at Microsoft Scholarship
  • Application Deadline: 3/8/2020
  • Amount: $20,000
Scholarship Description
Blacks at Microsoft (BAM) is a company-sponsored employee network dedicated to supporting the continued growth and development of black employees at Microsoft Corporation. Applicants for the Blacks at Microsoft Scholarship must be high-school seniors of African descent (for example, African-American, African, or Ethiopian); must plan to attend a four-year college or university in the fall of the year following high-school graduation and plan to pursue a bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, computer information systems, or select business programs (such as finance, business administration, or marketing). A minimum of 3.3 GPA and financial need are required. For more information or to apply, please visit the scholarship provider’s website.
BLM Squared Scholarship
  • Application Deadline: 7/3/2019
  • Amount: $1,000
Scholarship Description
The BLM Squared Scholarship Foundation program is designed to address the financial needs of minority college students and award outstanding high school graduates who plan to earn a baccalaureate degree from an accredited, four-year college or university with financial assistance.
Applicants must be permanent Illinois residents. Scholarships are to be utilized at an institution of higher learning and applicants must be a minority graduating high school senior in the year of the award. The applicant must hold a high school cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher and must be enrolled as a full-time student during the fall academic semester. For more information or to apply, please visit the scholarship provider’s website.
Burger King Scholars
Application Deadline: Oct 15 – December 15
Amount: range from $1,000 to $50,000
Scholarship Description: If you want to go a step further, the McLamore Family Foundation created the James W. McLamore WHOPPER® Scholarship Award, granting a $50,000 scholarship to three students each year since 2011. The four-year scholarship is intended to help the top students that apply achieve their educational and professional goals, along with serving as a tribute to Jim himself. Here are the details:
  • Be a citizen of the United States or Canada,
  • Have graduated from high school within the last three years or be a full-time student who is a senior at a high school or home school in the United States, Canada or Puerto Rico,
  • Students who are applying as a full-time freshman to a four-year accredited, college or university that is located in the United States and is exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code,
  • Students who have a cumulative unweighted grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.3,
  • Students who have a minimum ACT Composite score of 25 or a minimum combined SAT score of 1220,
Catharine Lealtad Scholarships
Application Deadline: Varies
Amount: $72,000
Catharine Lealtad Scholarships are named for Macalester’s first African American graduate, Catharine Lealtad, who graduated in 1915. These scholarships are awarded to selected African American, Latino, and Native American students with strong high school records. The Admissions committee selects recipients. There is no special application to complete. Lealtad Scholarships will be renewed at the same amount for each year you are enrolled at Macalester, provided that you make satisfactory progress toward graduation.
It is not necessary to apply for need-based financial aid to receive full consideration for merit-based scholarships. Students applying for Early Decision receive the same consideration for merit-based scholarships as students who apply for Regular Decision.
Congressional Black Caucus Scholarships
  • Application Deadline: 3/31 every year
  • Amount: Depends on the scholarship
  • CBC Spouses Performing Arts Scholarship is looking for black students pursuing a degree in the performing arts to
    receive financial assistance. Performing arts includes theatre
    , drama, comedy, music, dance, opera, marching bands, etc.
  • ‘The CBC Spouses Visual Arts Scholarship is for Black students who are pursuing a degree in the visual arts. Visual arts include architecture, ceramics, drawing, fashion, graphic design, illustration, interior design, painting, photography, sketching, video production, etc.
  • CBC Spouses Education Scholarship and United Health Foundation Louis Stokes Scholarship
Charles Shelton Veterinarian Medicine/Technology Scholarship
  • Application Deadline: 4/15
  • Amount: $2,000
The Charles Shelton Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide educational scholarships to African-American students pursuing a degree in veterinarian medicine or veterinarian technology. Scholarships are awarded to individuals who have demonstrated an interest in and commitment to animal welfare. Applicants must have a minimum 3.0 GPA, and be African-American.
Christopher Lamont Cosper Foundation Scholarship for HBCU students
  • Amount: Not specified
The foundation will give a one-time scholarship to a student who has been accepted to an HBCU college and have a 3.7 GPA. The student must be studying in the field of  Science and meteorology of the effects of lightning on the human body.  This research could possibly help in the medical field to provide information on how to treat someone who has been struck directly by lightning
 
Coca-Cola Two Year College Scholarships
Deadline: August
Amount: $10,000 – $20,000
Scholarship Description:
The Coca-Cola Scholars Program is a very competitive program for high school seniors throughout the United States. Sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company, the largest soft drink company in the world, the program awards millions every year in college funding.
Applicants must be current high school (or home-schooled) seniors, must be U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents, must be planning to pursue a degree at an accredited university or college, and must have a minimum 3.0 GPA at the end of their junior year of high school.
Dell Scholars
Amount: up to $5,000
Scholarship Description:
The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation created the Dell Scholars program with the understanding that it takes more than financial help to support students to college graduation. From the start, Dell Scholars was designed as a college completion program that offers support services that go beyond a scholarship check.
While we have a required 2.4 grade point average, Dell Scholars targets low-income, highly motivated students who are better than their numbers indicate and demonstrate the drive to succeed despite personal obstacles. Our Scholars have demonstrated a unique “GPA” of grit, potential, and ambition in their quest for a college education.
Development Fund for Black Students in Science and Technology
Application Deadline: Not specified
Amount: $3,000
Scholarship Description
The Development Fund for Black Students in Science and Technology (DFBSST) is an endowment fund which provides scholarships to African-American undergraduate students who enroll in scientific or technical fields of study at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for scholarships offered by DFBSST, all applicants must meet the following criteria:
  • African-American, undergraduate student majoring (or intending to major) in a technical field of study (i.e., engineering, math, science, etc.),
  • Be enrolled (or identify his or her intention to enroll) at one of the predominantly Black colleges or universities listed below, and
  • Be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
DR. WYNETTA A. FRAZIER “SISTER-TO-SISTER” SCHOLARSHIP
Application Deadline: April
  • Amount: $500
The Wynetta A. Frazier “Sister-to-Sister” Scholarship was created to provide financial assistance to mature African American Women in their pursuit of post-secondary education. An applicant must be a returning student, whose education was interrupted by family responsibilities or other personal demands and is now ready to complete college or one who is entering college for the first time because of these factors. (Please explain) All applicants must meet the prescribed scholarship criteria.
Edward S. Roth Scholarship
  • Application Deadline: 2/1/2020
  • Amount: Varies
Scholarship Description
In order to apply for the Edward S. Roth Scholarship, applicants must be graduating high school seniors, current full-time undergraduate or graduate students enrolled in manufacturing engineering. Must have and maintain a minimum 3.0 GPA. Preferences will be given to students demonstrating financial need, minority students and students participating in a Co-Op program. Must be seeking a bachelor’s or master’s degree in manufacturing engineering from the list of ABET-accredited schools listed on the website.
EMPOWER Scholarships
Amount: $1,500
The EMPOWER Scholarship supports minority students who are pursuing a career in a medical or rehabilitation field. Applicants must identify how they will use their education and training and demonstrate their interest in rehabilitation. Selection is based on the applicant’s stated intentions, past achievements, need, and graduation ranking.
Express Scripts Scholarship
  • Application Deadline: May 15
  • Amount: $10,000
Scholarship Description
As an organization, the Express Scripts Foundation recognizes that students interested in dual degrees may have increased financial need, and supports the efforts of academic pharmacy to educate students with diverse interests. The Express Scripts Scholars Program (the Program) provides four (4) $10,000 scholarships to enrolled dual degree students. The awarded students are given $2,500 per semester for 4 consecutive semesters, totaling $10,000 over 2 years. If you do not have 4 semesters remaining in your program, then you will be awarded $2,500 per semester that you have remaining (e.g. 2 remaining semesters = $2500 + $2500 totaling $5000). Additional consideration will be given to low socio-economic status students as well as students who are underrepresented minorities.
First in the Family Humanist Scholarship
  • Amount: $1,000
Scholarship Description
  • The First In The Family Freedom From Religion Foundation Catherine Fahringer Memorial award is available to high school youth who live in the U.S. who identify as atheist, agnostic, humanist and/or secular, and are accepted into two or four-year colleges. Preference is given to students of color (Black/African American, Latino(a), Asian/Pacific Islander, Native American) who are (or have been) in foster care, homeless, undocumented students and/or LGBTQ (system involved youth applicants are also welcome). A two to three-paragraph essay is required (between 400-700 words) on the following topic: Humanism is based on the belief that every human being should be treated equally regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, class, and disability status. Human beings, not gods, are solely responsible for creating social change. Why do you identify as non-religious/secular and what issue(s) are you passionate about addressing in your community? How might Humanism make a positive difference in creating social change?
GRCF Arts Council of Greater Grand Rapids Minority Scholarship
  • Application Deadline: 3/1/2020
  • Amount: Varies
  • The Arts Council of Greater Grand Rapids Minority Scholarship is open to students of color (African-American, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander) attending a non-profit public or private college/university majoring in fine arts, including all visual and performing arts. Applicants must have financial need, be a Kent County resident, and have a minimum 2.5 GPA.
Google U.S./Canada PhD Fellowship Program
Deadline: November
Amount: Varies
Scholarship Description:
Google U.S./Canada Ph.D. Fellowship Program honors exceptional graduate students in the U.S. and Canada who do outstanding and innovative work in computer science, related disciplines, or promising research areas. Qualifying students must be pursuing a Ph.D. in fellowship research areas. Candidates must be nominated by their department.
The two-year fellowships cover tuition and fees, a Google research mentor, and a yearly stipend. Candidates must be full-time students attending one of the eligible schools and universities. Fellowships are offered in the areas of computer graphics, computer architecture, networking, energy-efficient computing, software engineering, programming technology, and much more.
Goldman Sachs MBA Fellowship
Amount: $25,000
Deadline: January 1, 2020
Scholarship Description
The MBA Fellowship is designed to increase interest in financial services among black, Hispanic and Native American business school students.
First-year MBA students; Pursuing a 2019 Summer Associate position at Goldman Sachs; Black, Hispanic/Latino, Native American or women. For Atlanta, Boston, Calgary, Chicago, Dallas, Greenwich, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seattle, West Palm Beach, Washington D.C.
Ron Brown Scholars Program
Amount: $40,000
Scholarship Description
African American students in their senior year of high school are eligible for this scholarship program. This scholarship will be awarded to students who demonstrate an interest in public service, community engagement, business entrepreneurship, and global citizenship
Seeds of Fortune Inc. Scholarship
Amount: $500
All-female NYC high school sophomores or juniors have the opportunity to receive a 6-year high school to a college program and join a network of young women mentors and college coaches. Each participant is awarded a free laptop, tours to colleges and universities, and mentor/coaching opportunities.
Sidney B. Williams, Jr. Scholarships
Amount: $10,000
Scholarship Description
The scholarship is intended for students entering or attending law school who demonstrate a commitment to developing a career in intellectual property law. The applicant must be a US citizen and demonstrate merit and financial need before applying for the scholarship.
The scholarship is renewable, upon reapplication by the student, for up to three academic years (totalling six semesters for full-time or part-time enrollment, excluding summer school semesters and inter-sessions). Existing scholarship recipients must reapply each year.
TELACU College Success Program Scholarship
Amount: $5,000
Applicants for the TELACU College Success Program must be first-generation college students from a low to moderate household income. A GPA of 2.5 or higher is required.
The following are links to additional scholarships and grants for minorities with past deadlines for the Summer 2019-Fall 2020. Check back in the Fall of 2020 for updates of their deadline for submission.
African American Scholarships
If you know of any additional scholarships or grants, please leave a comment below.

Kindergarten Teacher on Black History

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Our teller for this episode is Sam, who has a degree in African-American studies. She is now a Kindergarten Teacher in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side Chicago, which is the Black Metropolis. She discusses her approach to teaching her students Black History year-round, and how she makes it fun.
Podcast Notes
Interview with a Kindergarten Teacher about Black History
  1. Sam Moore is a Kindergarten teacher in the Bronzeville area in Chicago.
  2. She teaches Black History year-round to her students.
  3. She makes teaching Black History fun by enjoying it herself while teaching, showing animated videos, reading books on historical Black people, etc.
  4. Her degree is in African-American studies.
Cyslie & Vanessa discuss
  1. We found that it is interesting that she teaches Black History year-round, but was unsure if it was because of the neighborhood in which she teaches, versus a mixed school.
  2. Black History shouldn’t be the only history being taught within the schools. Asian, Hispanic History and others should be taught as well.
  3. What are the factors we should look for in a school for our children?

Black Museums in the United States

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Black Museums in the United States
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
ALABAMA
Selma
The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute
Our mission is to be a Museum and Institute that chronicles and preserves the historic journey for the right to vote that began when the “Founding Fathers” first planted the seeds of democracy in 1776.
Birmingham
Negro Southern League Museum
The Negro Southern League was created in 1920 by a group of African-American businessmen and baseball enthusiasts. From 1920 until its demise in 1951, the Negro Southern League served as a feeder route for many great black baseball players to go on to the Negro American League and Negro National League.
Dothan
G W Carver Interpretive Museum
The G.W. Carver Interpretive Museum is a community museum focused on educating individuals of all ages, races and creeds on the rich historical contributions of African-Americans.  We aim to provide a welcoming environment that allows you, our guest, to be inquisitive and enlightened.  Our friendly and knowledgeable staff is committed to providing you with an uncommon (and unforgettable) experience that will compel you to return time and time again!
Tuscaloosa
Murphy African American Museum
Located in The Murphy-Collins House-Home of Tuscaloosa’s first licensed black mortician, features the lifestyle of affluent blacks during the early 1900s, built in 1923. National Register of Historic Places – Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Montgomery
Dexter Parsonage Museum
The Dexter Parsonage Museum, historic home to twelve pastors of the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church from 1920-1992, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was restored in 2003 by the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Foundation, Inc., under the direction of church members, acting as an Authentication Committee.
Danville
Jesse Owens Memorial Park and Museum
Jesse Owens Museum’s digital collection includes the complete archives related to the inspiration, development and operation of the Jesse Owens Park and Museum. The collection includes documents, photos, correspondence, board minutes and news articles from 1983 to the present.
Mobile
National African American Archives and Museum
The National African American Archives and Museum, formerly known as the Davis Avenue Branch of Mobile Public Library, is an archive and history museum located in Mobile, Alabama. It serves as a repository for documents, records, photographs, books, African carvings, furniture, and special collections that relate to the African-American experience in the United States.
Troy
Rosa Parks Library and Museum
Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum is an active memorial to the life of civil rights icon Rosa Parks and the lessons of the Montgomery Bus Boycott that brought racial integration to transportation and international attention to civil rights. Located in downtown Montgomery, Alabama at the site where Mrs. Parks was arrested, it is the nation’s only museum dedicated to Rosa Parks.
Alaska
No Black museums
ARIZONA
Phoenix
The George Washington Carver Museum
The George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center is a historical preservation site that is dedicated to the Collection, Documentation, Preservation, Study, and Dissemination of the History and Culture of Africans and Americans of African Descent in Arizona.
Arkansas
Pocahontas
Eddie Mae Herron Center & Museum
The Mission of the Eddie Mae Herron Center is to help individuals, communities, and organizations to identify, protect, and preserve the history and to foster widespread appreciation of and respect for the African American culture.
Little Rock
Ernie’s Museum on Black Arkansans
By appointment only, February through September. Ernie’s Museum of Black Arkansans and Performing Arts, founded in 1993, is a privately funded non-profit institution. It is the state’s first black history museum dedicated to preserving the culture and heritage of African-Americans in Arkansas.
Mosaic Templars Cultural Center
The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center is a Department of Arkansas Heritage museum in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. Its mission is to collect, preserve, interpret and celebrate African American history, culture and community in Arkansas from 1870 to the present, and informs and educates the public about black achievements, especially in business, politics and the arts.
CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles
California African-American Museum
The California African American Museum is a museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, United States. The Museum focuses on enrichment and education on the cultural heritage and history of African Americans with a focus on California and the western United States. Admission is free to all visitors.
Oran Z’s Pan African Black Facts & Wax Museum
Oran Z’s massive collection of African-American artifacts, including everything from slave shackles to once-popular “Mamie” cookie jars to a flag signed by Barack Obama.
San Diego
African Museum Casa del Rey Moro
The African Museum showcases extensive educational information in charts, timelines, and graphics that bring you a better understanding of African cultural history and its impact throughout the world. There is also a collection of culturally relevant items, including carvings, weavings and other artifacts from over 10 different African countries.
Oakland
African American Museum & Library at Oakland
The African American Museum and Library at Oakland is dedicated to the discovery, preservation, interpretation and sharing of historical and cultural experiences of African Americans in California and the West for present and future generations.
COLORADO
Black American West Museum & Heritage Center
A museum that explores the history of black cowboys, wranglers and ranchers in the American West.
CONNECTICUT
Stamford
BLACK WW II HISTORY MUSEUM
This museum is the only one of its kind in the U.S. The museum was created not to glorify war but to document it — In particular to honor the long-ignored role of African-Americans in the largest worldwide conflict of human history.
Hartford
John E. Rogers African American Cultural Center
The cultural center was named after Hartford resident John Rogers, the first African American superintendent of a post office in Connecticut. Rogers became regarded as a consultant in black history to the University of Hartford and Greater Hartford Community College.
Delaware
Wilmington
Jane and Littleton Mitchell Center for African American Heritage
The purpose of the Mitchell Center for African American Heritage is to collect, preserve, research and present for public enrichment the history and heritage of Delaware’s African Americans and it is headquartered on the Delaware Historical Society’s Wilmington campus in the Delaware History Museum.
FLORIDA
New Smyrna Beach
Black Heritage Museum
(Also known as the Mary S. Harrell Black Heritage Museum ) is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing awareness and appreciation for African American culture and history. Emphasizing the contributions of its people, the museum preserves and displays a collection of photos, oral histories, memorabilia and artifacts to educate citizens about the history of race relations in small-town Florida over the course of the twentieth century.
Miami
Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum
The museum is a full service facility. It displays police memorabilia, artifacts, documents, video, and word-of-mouth stories by the men and women who worked there. It provides a community center for its citizens, a tutorial center, and learning center for children in the City of Miami’s most underprivileged neighborhoods.
St. Petersburg
Dr Carter G Woodson Museum
The museum presents the historic voice of one segment of the St. Petersburg Florida community in the perspective of local, regional, and national history, culture and community. It is another demonstration of the commitment to revitalize the Midtown St. Petersburg area.
Orlando
Wells’ Built Museum of African American History and Culture
Dr. William Monroe Wells, an African American physician, built this hotel in 1926 to provide lodging to African Americans visiting the Orlando area. Second-floor hotel rooms complemented three first-floor store fronts. The adjacent South Street Casino attracted many famous entertainers, and the hotel became their favorite stopping place. Today, with authentic furnishings of the 1930s, the museum, features artifacts that include official hotel documents, an original Negro League baseball jersey and slave records.
Fort Lauderdale
African-American research library and Cultural Center
A main library and a unique children’s library with more Black history books and books written by Blacks than any other facility in the country. The auditorium and exhibit areas provide opportunities to exchange ideas and cultural values as well as promote an understanding and appreciation of the contributions of persons of African descent. Monday & Wednesday, 12 noon to 8pm. All other days, including Sunday, are 10am to 6pm.
GEORGIA
Thomasville
Jack Hadley Black History Museum
We are Thomasville’s First Black History Museum, established in 1995 to educate individuals about the history and culture of African Americans locally and nationally. The museum was founded by African-American historian, James “Jack” Hadley who has preserved over 4,669 pieces of African American artifacts with emphasis on Thomasville’s First Black Achievers, state and national achievers that commemorate their lives and accomplishments.
Augusta
The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History
The mission of the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History is to promote the legacy of Ms. Lucy Craft Laney through arts and history.  We accomplish this awesome task by educating and exposing children and adults of the CSRA, the State and beyond to the arts, history, literature and leadership through exhibits and programs.
Atlanta
Martin Luther King Jr. Birth House
The only ranger-led tour in the park is of Dr. King’s Birth Home. All other facilities such as the Visitor Centeer, Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, Dr. and Mrs. King’s Gravesite, Freedom Hall, and Historic Fire Station No. 6 are self-guided. The ranger-led tour is free and lasts approximately 30 minutes during which time you will learn about the life of a young M. L. King. The home is open for tours on a daily basis, except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day, with the first tour at 10:00 am and the last tour at 4:00 p.m. Tours are limited to 15 people.
The King Center
The King Library and Archives in Atlanta is the largest repository of primary source materials on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement in the world. The collection consists of the papers of Dr. King and those of the organization he co-founded.
The APEX Museum
Preserving history fuels us. To excite, explore, express, examine, explain and exhibit is to open new doors to be an example by which all can make good. At the APEX Museum, we pride ourselves in connecting African, African-American diaspora, and Black Atlanta history to provide our visitors with an experience unlike any other.
National Center for Human Civil Rights
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta is an engaging cultural attraction that connects the American Civil Rights Movement to today’s struggle for Global Human Rights. Our purpose is to create a safe space for visitors to explore the fundamental rights of all human beings so that they leave inspired and empowered to join the ongoing dialogue about human rights in their communities.
Macon
Tubman Museum
The Tubman Museum fulfills its mission through diverse exhibitions, innovative educational programming, cutting edge technology and a host of special events throughout the year.
HAWAII
Honolulu
African American Diversity Cultural Center Hawaii
The African American Diversity Cultural Center Hawai’i (AADCCH) museum repository collects and archives historical documentation to preserve 200 years of Black history in Hawai’i and share it with the community to educate and enhance cultural appreciation.
IDAHO
Boise
Idaho Black History Museum
The Idaho Black History Museum provides opportunities for educational enrichment and promotes the study of the contributions of Black Americans in American history.
ILLINOIS
Chicago
A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum
This museum focuses on the man and the African- American contribution to America’s labor history and the Pullman Porters, the Great Migration, and the American Civil Rights Movement.
DuSable Museum of African American History
The DuSable Museum of African American History is dedicated to the study and conservation of African American history, culture, and art. It was founded in 1961 by Dr. Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, her husband Charles Burroughs, Gerard Lew, Eugene Feldman, Marian M. Hadley, and others. Taylor-Burroughs and other founders established the museum to celebrate black culture, at the time overlooked by most museums and academic establishments.
Peoria
African American Hall of Fame Museum
The African American Hall of Fame Museum was founded in 1987 by a small group of civic leaders with a mission to educate through preserving and promoting art and history that highlight African American achievements and individuals that have had an impact on the African American experience, in our community and beyond.
Carbondale
African American Museum of Southern Illinois
The purpose of the African American Museum of Southern Illinois is to identify, preserve, and portray outstanding achievements in African American history and culture.
INDIANA
Indianapolis
Early Black Settlement – Indiana Historical Society
The Indiana Historical Society is one of the United States’ oldest and largest historical societies and describes itself as “Indiana’s Storyteller”.
Fort Wayne
African-American Historical Museum
The AAAHSM (“AWESOME”) exhibits the histories of people of African descent in Allen County since 1809 and African history from earliest times to today. An Arts United affiliate, the museum houses the city’s largest public collection of African Art.
Evansville
Evansville African American Museum
The mission of the Evansville African American Museum is to continually develop a resource and cultural center to collect, preserve, and educate the public on the history and traditions of African American families, organizations, and communities.
IOWA
Cedar Rapids
African-American Museum of Iowa
The African American Museum of Iowa is a statewide museum dedicated to preserving, exhibiting, and teaching Iowa’s African American history. As Iowa’s leading educational resource on the topic, we educate more than 30,000 people each year through museum tours, traveling exhibits, research services, youth and adult education programs, and community and fundraising events.
KANSAS
Wichita
The Kansas African-American Museum
The Kansas African American Museum, formerly the venerable Calvary Baptist Church was once the cornerstone of Wichita’s vibrant black community
Kansas City
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) is 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 America. The privately funded, 501 c3, not-for-profit organization was established in 1990 and is in the heart of Kansas City, Missouri’s Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District. The NLBM operates two blocks from the Paseo YMCA where Andrew “Rube” Foster established the Negro National League in 1920.
Bruce R. Watkin Center
This living museum stands in tribute to the legacy of Kansas City’s early African-American pioneers and embodies the artistic, cultural and social history of the African-American experience.
KENTUCKY
Louisville
Kentucky Center for African-American Heritage
The Kentucky Center for African American Heritage is the result of a collection of African American educators, artist, and historians who have collaborated to give the long-dormant history of African Americans in their region the voice and platform it deserves. This group evolved from the Louisville and Jefferson County African American Heritage Committee into its current mold, with a single unifying goal of promoting the Kentuckiana region’s black heritage.
Roots 101
The Roots 101 African – American Museum will be a museum dedicated to tell the story of the African-American journey from Africa and all ports in between.
Muhammad Ali Center
The Muhammad Ali Center is a non-profit museum and cultural center in Louisville, Kentucky. Dedicated to boxer Muhammad Ali, a native of Louisville, it is located in the city’s West Main District.
LOUISIANA
Opelousas
Creole Heritage Folklife Center
The Creole Heritage Folklife Center is located in an old house, deliberately kept rustic so that visitors get a true sense of the period. There is a potbelly stove in the kitchen, a dry sink on the countertop, a hand-braided rug in front of the bedroom fireplace, and shelves with hats and hatboxes of the era.
Houma
Finding Our Roots African American Museum
This landmark museum is the first exhibition and education venue dedicated to African American history and culture in the Terrebone parish. It aims to educate and to raise awareness of the significance of African American history to an understanding of the overall story of America as experienced in the Bayou Region .
Hammond
Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum
The Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum & Veterans Archives is a museum on Phoenix Square in Hammond, Louisiana. There are three main buildings.
New Orleans
New Orleans African American Museum
The New Orleans African American Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, is located in the historic Tremé neighborhood, the oldest-surviving black community in the United States
Edgard
Whitney Plantation
The Whitney Plantation Historic District is a museum devoted to slavery in the Southern United States. The district, including the main house and outbuildings, is preserved near Wallace, in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana
Melrose
Melrose Plantation
Melrose Plantation is an Antebellum historic house museum located in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. A National Historic Landmark, Melrose Plantation contains nine historic buildings including the African House, Yucca House, Weaving Cabin, Bindery and the Big House.
Monroe
Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum
Founded in 1994, the Northeast Louisiana Delta African Heritage Museum museum features seminars, events, and research materials on the 1960s civil rights movement in Northeast Louisiana, plus works of art by Don Cincone, Bernard Menyweather, and Agnes Hicks.
Donaldsville
River Road African American Museum
River Road African American Museum is a museum of culture and history in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, United States. Founded in 1994, it was among the first Louisiana museums to tell the story of Africans and African Americans, both slave and free.
Shreveport
Stephens African American Museum
The Stephens African-American Museum was opened in 1994 as a community service project of the Spencer Ray Stephens Foundation, Inc. It is a living museum dedicated to the preservation of African-American history, artifacts and documents.
MAINE
No black museums to be found
MARYLAND
Baltimore
Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Museum
The Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park and Museum is a Living Classrooms Foundation campus and national heritage site that celebrates the legacy of Baltimore’s own Frederick Douglass,Isaac Myers, and the first shipyard established by African-Americans in 1868,the Chesapeake Marine Railway and Dry Dock Company right at the water’s edge on the Inner Harbor in historic Fells Point.
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture Baltimore
The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture is the premier experience and best resource for information and inspiration about the lives of African American Marylanders.
The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum
The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is a wax museum in Baltimore, Maryland featuring prominent African-American historical figures. It was established in 1983, in a downtown storefront on Saratoga Street.
KENTUCKY
Louisville
Kentucky Center for African-American Heritage
The Kentucky Center for African American Heritage is the result of a collection of African American educators, artist, and historians who have collaborated to give the long-dormant history of African Americans in their region the voice and platform it deserves. This group evolved from the Louisville and Jefferson County African American Heritage Committee into its current mold, with a single unifying goal of promoting the Kentuckiana region’s black heritage.
Roots 101
The Roots 101 African – American Museum will be a museum dedicated to tell the story of the African-American journey from Africa and all ports in between.
Muhammad Ali Center
The Muhammad Ali Center is a non-profit museum and cultural center in Louisville, Kentucky. Dedicated to boxer Muhammad Ali, a native of Louisville, it is located in the city’s West Main District.
LOUISIANA
Opelousas
Creole Heritage Folklife Center
The Creole Heritage Folklife Center is located in an old house, deliberately kept rustic so that visitors get a true sense of the period. There is a potbelly stove in the kitchen, a dry sink on the countertop, a hand-braided rug in front of the bedroom fireplace, and shelves with hats and hatboxes of the era.
Houma
Finding Our Roots African American Museum
This landmark museum is the first exhibition and education venue dedicated to African American history and culture in the Terrebone parish. It aims to educate and to raise awareness of the significance of African American history to an understanding of the overall story of America as experienced in the Bayou Region .
Hammond
Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum
The Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum & Veterans Archives is a museum on Phoenix Square in Hammond, Louisiana. There are three main buildings.
New Orleans
New Orleans African American Museum
The New Orleans African American Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, is located in the historic Tremé neighborhood, the oldest-surviving black community in the United States
Edgard
Whitney Plantation
The Whitney Plantation Historic District is a museum devoted to slavery in the Southern United States. The district, including the main house and outbuildings, is preserved near Wallace, in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana
Melrose
Melrose Plantation
Melrose Plantation is an Antebellum historic house museum located in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. A National Historic Landmark, Melrose Plantation contains nine historic buildings including the African House, Yucca House, Weaving Cabin, Bindery and the Big House.
Monroe
Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum
Founded in 1994, the Northeast Louisiana Delta African Heritage Museum museum features seminars, events, and research materials on the 1960s civil rights movement in Northeast Louisiana, plus works of art by Don Cincone, Bernard Menyweather, and Agnes Hicks.
Donaldsville
River Road African American Museum
River Road African American Museum is a museum of culture and history in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, United States. Founded in 1994, it was among the first Louisiana museums to tell the story of Africans and African Americans, both slave and free.
Shreveport
Stephens African American Museum
The Stephens African-American Museum was opened in 1994 as a community service project of the Spencer Ray Stephens Foundation, Inc. It is a living museum dedicated to the preservation of African-American history, artifacts and documents.
MAINE
No black museums to be found
MARYLAND
Baltimore
Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Museum
The Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park and Museum is a Living Classrooms Foundation campus and national heritage site that celebrates the legacy of Baltimore’s own Frederick Douglass,Isaac Myers, and the first shipyard established by African-Americans in 1868,the Chesapeake Marine Railway and Dry Dock Company right at the water’s edge on the Inner Harbor in historic Fells Point.
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture Baltimore
The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture is the premier experience and best resource for information and inspiration about the lives of African American Marylanders.
The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum
The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is a wax museum in Baltimore, Maryland featuring prominent African-American historical figures. It was established in 1983, in a downtown storefront on Saratoga Street.
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston
Museum of African American History
The Museum of African American History is New England’s largest museum dedicated to preserving, conserving and interpreting the contributions of African Americans. In Boston and Nantucket, the Museum has preserved two historic sites and two Black Heritage Trails® that tell the story of organized black communities from the Colonial Period through the 19th century.
Mansfield
National Black Doll Museum
Our Mission is three-fold to nurture self-esteem, promote culture diversity and to preserve the history of black dolls by educating the public on their significance.
Springfield
The Pan African Historical Museum
Pan African Historical Museum USA (PAHMUSA) have been bringing African and African-American culture and history alive for area students as well as the general public in their museum spaces at Tower Square.  PAHMUSA is where African culture and African-American history converge to paint a full picture of Black History, with a special focus on Western Massachusetts.
Roxbury
Museum Of The National Center Of Afro American Artists Inc.
The National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) is an institution founded in 1968 by Elma Lewis to “preserv[e] and foster[] the cultural arts heritage of black peoples worldwide through arts teaching, and the presentation of professional works in all fine arts disciplines.”
MICHIGAN
Detroit
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History is located in the Cultural Center of the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1965, the museum holds the world’s largest permanent exhibit on African-American culture. In 1997, Detroit architects Sims-Varner & Associates designed a new 120,000 square foot facility on Warren Avenue.
The James Jackson Museum of African American History
A museum that seeks to understand American history through the lens of the African Americanexperience. National Museum of African American History and Culture | A museum that seeks to understand American history through the lens of the African American experience.
Motown Museum
Originally the recording studios and residence of Berry Gordy and Motown Records. Information for visitors to the museum, and profiles of the label’s featured artists including Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Jackson 5, and Four Tops. Located in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis
Minnesota African American Museum
The Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery (MAAHMG) is a Minnesota non-profit organization that was founded in 2018. The Museum’s purpose is to preserve, record and highlight the achievements, contributions and experiences of African Americans in Minnesota.
MISSISSIPPI
Jackson
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is a museum in Jackson, Mississippi. Its mission is to document, exhibit the history of, and educate the public about the American Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. state of Mississippi between 1945 and 1970
African American Military History Museum
The African American Military History Museum, also known as East Sixth Street USO Building, was constructed in 1942 as a USO Club for African American soldiers who were stationed at Camp Shelby.
Natchez
Natchez Museum Of African American History & Culture
The Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture is a museum located in Natchez, MS, United States. The museum chronicles the history and culture of African Americans in the southern United States.
The Oakes African American Culture Center
Oakes African American Cultural Center. The house has many architectural features that are unusual and remarkably well preserved. The leaded-glass entrance doors, original mantels, chimneys, walls, and stairs are especially interesting.
Smith Robertson Museum & Cultural
The Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center documents the history and achievements of African Americans in Mississippi and sponsors workshops and festivals.
Indianola
B.B King Museum & Delta Interpretive Center
The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center is a Delta blues museum with the mission to “empower, unite and heal through music, art and education and share with the world the rich cultural heritage of the Mississippi Delta.” The museum, named for blues legend, B.B. King, is located in his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, in the United States.
MISSOURI
Kansas City
American Jazz Museum
The American Jazz Museum is a jazz museum in the historic 18th and Vine district of Kansas City, Missouri. The museum preserves the history of American jazz music, with exhibits on Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and others.
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is a privately funded museum dedicated to preserving the history of Negro league baseball in America. It was founded in 1990 in Kansas City, Missouri, in the historic 18th & Vine District, the hub of African-American cultural activity in Kansas City during the first half of the 20th century.
St. Louis
George B. Vashon Museum
The George B. Vashon Museum truly is a hidden gem. Started by former teacher and black memorabilia collector, Calvin Riley, the George B. Vashon Museum houses a collection that encompases 250 years of African American history in St. Louis
Griot of Black History and Culture
The Griot Museum of Black History. In some west African countries, the griot, is a historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician. The griot is a repository of oral tradition and is often seen as a societal leader who preserves and shares cultural traditions of a community.
SCOTT JOPLIN HOUSE STATE HISTORIC SITE
The Scott Joplin House State Historic Site is located at 2658 Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It preserves the Scott Joplin Residence, the home of composer Scott Joplin from 1901 to 1903. The house and its surroundings are maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources as a state historic site. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places and designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1976.
National Blues Museum
The National Blues Museum is a museum in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, dedicated to exploring the musical history and impact of the blues. It exists as an entertainment and educational resource focusing on blues music.
MONTANA
No black museums found
NEBRASKA
Omaha
Great Plains Black History Museum
The Great Plains Black History Museum has been a striving institution dedicated to publicizing and preserving the achievements of the region’s vibrant African American heritage. To ensure the success both of a future capital campaign and the sustainability of the institution, the museummust gain broad community acceptance
Lincoln
Midwestern African Museum of Art, Culture & Resource Center
The Midwestern African Museum of Art, Culture and Resource Center or MAMA welcomes the community and visitors to Lincoln to come experience the hidden beauty and rich history of Africa’s art and culture. MAMA is the first established African museum.
NEVADA
Las Vegas
Walker African American Museum
The Walker African-American Museum is the only African-American museum in Nevada. It recounts the history and heritage of African Americans. The museum exhibits some unique artifacts, works of art and other related memorabilia.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Portsmouth
Seacoast African American Cultural Center
Seacoast African American Cultural Center is located at 8 Islington St in Portsmouth, NH – Rockingham County and is a business listed in the categories Art Galleries & Dealers, Art Galleries and Art Galleries, By Subject.
NEW JERSEY
Atlantic City & Newtonville
African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey
AAHMSNJ features African American cultural artifacts and the work of local artists in Southern New Jersey. With a permanent home in Atlantic City and a traveling museum with access to over 3,000 historical and cultural artifacts
NEW MEXICO
Albuquerque
African American Museum & Cultural Center of New Mexico
The mission of the African American Museum and Cultural Center of New Mexico (AAMCCNM) is to increase awareness and understanding of the contributions of people of African descent with emphasis on New Mexico and the Southwest.
NEW YORK
Brooklyn
Black Inventors Museum
The Black Inventor Online Museum is the #1 resource on the web focusing on the ingenuity and accomplishments of the top Black inventors over the last 300 years. Their contributions are chronicled and the inventors are profiled, providing information for students and others interested in these pioneers of Black History.
Queens
Louis Armstrong House Museum
The Louis Armstrong House was the home of Louis Armstrong and his wife Lucille Wilson from 1943 until his death in 1971. Lucille gave ownership of it to the city of New York in order to create a museum focused on her husband.
New York City
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide
The Studio Museum in Harlem
The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society.
Fraunces Tavern Museum
Fraunces Tavern Museum’s mission is to preserve and interpret the history of the American Revolutionary era through public education
Harlem
African-American Wax Museum of Harlem
Museum devoted to Afro-American art and culture. Its offerings range from sculptures and wax mannequins to paintings and folk art.
NORTH CAROLINA
Raleigh
African American Cultural Complex ‘
The African American Cultural Complex museum has a unique collection of artifacts, documents and displays of outstanding contributions made by African Americans that are housed in several buildings along a picturesque nature trail.
Greensboro
International Civil Rights Center & Museum
The International Civil Rights Center & Museum is located in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Its building formerly housed the Woolworth’s, the site of a non-violent protest in the civil rights movement. Four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University started the Greensboro sit-ins at a “whites only” lunch counter on February 1, 1960
Charlotte
The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture
at Levine Center for the Arts
The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, formerly known as the Afro-American Cultural Center, is located in Charlotte, North Carolina and named for Harvey Gantt, the city’s first African-American mayor and the first African-American student at Clemson University.
NORTH DAKOTA
No black museums found
OHIO
Cleveland
African American Museum
The Museum is housed in a 100-year-old Carnegie Library building. The Museum works to educate young people about the positive contributions of blacks to the cultures of the world, and to eliminate the distorted portrayals and images of black people.
Cincinnati
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio based on the history of the Underground Railroad. Opened in 2004, the Center also pays tribute to all efforts to “abolish human enslavement and secure freedom for all people.”
Wilberforce
National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center
The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center is a museum located in Wilberforce, Ohio, whose mission is to chronicle through its collections and programs the rich and varied experiences of African Americans from their African origins to the present. It is one of many museums operated by the Ohio History Connection.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
The Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument, a National Monument of the United States, commemorates the life of Charles Young, an escaped slave who rose to become a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and its first African-American colonel.
OKLAHOMA
Garfield
Leona Mitchell Southern Heights Heritage Center and Museum
Leona Mitchell Southern Heights Heritage Center and Museum is a repository situated along the Old Chisholm Trail, in the former Cherokee Outlet, which was owned by that Nation’s Freedmen and Autonomous Bands prior to the premature 1893 settlement by Boomers.
Grady
Loretta Y. Jackson African American Historical Society Museum
To encourage the study and appreciation of African American heritage and cultural contributions.
OREGON
Salem
Oregon African American Museum
It’s original plan was to continue expanding on its research and telling the stories of these pioneers through presentations, exhibits, and books and to partner with school districts and historical organizations to distribute this information statewide.
PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia
The African American Museum in Philadelphia
The African American Museum in Philadelphia is notable as the first museum funded and built by a municipality to help preserve, interpret and exhibit the heritage of African Americans.
Black Writers Museum
Our Mission. To provide youth and community programming by utilizing exhibits of classic and modern Black authors and their composition as tools for teaching and learning. Service Areas
Central PA African American Museum
The Central PA African American Museum, located in Reading, is an easy day trip from Cumberland Valley. The museum is home to a collection of art, documents, court records and book focused on African American history in the Berks and Reading areas.
The Colored Girls Museum
The Colored Girls Museum is a memoir museum, which honors the stories, experiences, and history of ordinary Colored Girls. This museum initiates the object—submitted by the colored girl herself, as representative of an aspect of her story and personal history, which she finds meaningful .
Pittsburgh
August Wilson Center for African American Culture
August Wilson Cultural Center is a U.S. nonprofit arts organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that presents performing and visual arts programs that celebrate the contributions of African Americans not only in Western Pennsylvania, but nationally and internationally.
Reading
Central Pennsylvania African American Museum
The Central Pennsylvania African-American Museum is housed in a church that was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. The museum contains a large collection of artifacts, art objects, books, and photographs that document and describe the African-American experience in the New World.
RHODE ISLAND
Providence
The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society
The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society was constituted for the purposes of procuring, collecting, and preserving books, pamphlets, letters, manuscripts, prints, photographs, paintings, and historical materials relating to the history of African Americans in Rhode Island.
Stages of Freedom
Stages of Freedom Museum Celebrates African American History. The museum name was created by Robb Dimmick, the program director, using words from Frederick Douglass: “We are on a journey to Freedom.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston
Avery Research Center
The mission of the Avery Research Center is to collect, preserve, and promote the unique history and culture of the African diaspora, with an emphasis on Charleston, the South Carolina Lowcountry, and beyond.
Old Slave Mart Museum
The Old Slave Mart Museum has operated sporadically since 1938. It is often incorrectly called the Charleston Slave Market Museum, the Slave Mart Museum Charleston or the Old Slave Market Museum.. Thomas Ryan owned Ryan’s Mart which later became the Old Slave Mart. It is located between Chalmers and Queen Streets.
Greenville
Greenville Cultural Exchange
The Greenville Cultural Exchange Center is a multicultural museum founded in 1987 by Ruth Ann Butler. The Center provides a haven of historical reflection, research and education.
Myrtle Beach
HISTORIC MYRTLE BEACH COLORED SCHOOL MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER
The Myrtle Beach Colored School served African-American students in the Myrtle Beach area for more than 20 years. Now, a new Historic Myrtle Beach Colored School Museum and Education Centerprovides a window to the past, as well as a door to the future for all.
Walterboro
Slave Relic Museum
This museum, also known to be the historic slaves’ relics’ museum, has the history of how slave trade started and ended in Badagry, Nigeria. Badagry was found in 1425 and the slave trade started 15 centuries ago and lasted for 40 years before it was then abolished in Badagry.
SOUTH DAKOTA
Sioux Falls
South Dakota African American History Museum
The African American History Museum at the Washington Pavilion recognizes the struggles, contributions and great leadership of the African American community in South Dakota.
TENNESSEE
Brownsville
Dunbar Carver Museum
The Dunbar Carver Alumni Museum and Cultural Center is the only museum of its kind in West Tennessee. The museum is committed to telling the story of African Americans as actors, creators, and planners versus reactors to their environment.
Tina Turner Museum and Flagg Grove School
This once one-room schoolhouse attended by a young Anna Mae Bullock (aka Tina Turner) is now home to a collection of the Queen of Rock’s memorabilia including costumes and gold records.
Henning
Alex Haley Museum and Interpretive Center
Alex Haley House and Museum State Historic Site is one of the Tennessee Historical Commission’s state-owned historic sites and is located in Henning, Tennessee, United States.
Nashville
National Museum of African American Music
The National Museum of African American Music is a museum scheduled to open in Nashville, Tennessee in 2019. It is expected to showcase musical genres inspired, created, or influenced by African-Americans.
Chattanooga
Chattanooga African American Museum
The Chattanooga African American Heritage Museum has a long history of service and commitment to Chattanooga, Tennessee. More than twenty-five years ago, a group of visionary leaders held the first meeting of the African American Heritage Council at the Central City Complex
Bessie Smith Cultural Center.
The Bessie Smith Cultural Center has become a recognized educational institution. Its facilities are utilized daily by school children, adults, scholars, and visitors from all over the world. The community has helped the BSCC establish itself in Tennessee and the Chattanooga area as a beacon for community involvement and cultural awareness
Clinton
Green McAdoo Cultural Center
The Green McAdoo School in Clinton, Tennessee, was the community’s segregated elementary school for African American children until 1965.
Franklin
Mclemore House Museum
The McLemore House is a property in Franklin, Tennessee that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It is also known as the Harvey McLemore House, as it was the home of former slave Harvey McLemore, who became a successful farmer.
Knoxville
Beck Cultural Exchange Center
Beck Cultural Exchange Center. Beck is an old house with modern additions on the back. It houses an extensive archive of local black history. In the house are fantastic photos of the desegregation struggle and other memorabilia.
Memphis
National Civil Rights Museum
The National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the 17th century to the present.
Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum
Visitors can tour the tunnels used by runaway slaves who stopped at this plantation, one of the stations of the Underground Railroad.
Stax Museum of American Soul Music
The Stax Museum of American Soul Music is a museum located in Memphis, Tennessee, at 926 East McLemore Avenue, the former location of Stax Records. It is operated by Soulsville USA, which also operates the adjacent Stax Music Academy.
Withers Collection Museum and Gallery
The Withers Collection Museum and Gallery houses and displays the collection of photographs taken by Ernest C. Withers, a prolific photojournalist who captured Memphis history for over 60 years
TEXAS
Dallas
African American Museum Dallas
This museum houses documents and art relating to the African American experience. The museum’s permanent displays include African artifacts, folk art, furniture and decorative pieces.
Denton
African American Museum in the Historic Quakertown House
Denton County African American Museum was once part of an African American neighborhood known as Quakertown, a small community located close to the central business district of Denton. Quakertown, named in honor of the abolitionist Quakers who helped slaves traveling the Underground Railroad
Lubbock
Caviel Museum of African American History
Alfred and Billie Caviel were the first African-American husband and wife in the United States to own and operate their own pharmacy, in the eastside “Flats” neighborhood of Lubbock, Texas.
Houston
Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum preserves and promotes the history and traditions of African Americans who served in the U.S. armed forces, including the Buffalo Soldiers.
The Houston Museum of African American Culture
The mission of HMAAC is to collect, conserve, explore, interpret, and exhibit the material and intellectual culture of Africans and African Americans in Houston, the state of Texas, the southwest and the African Diaspora for current and future generations.
Austin
George Washington Carver Museum
The George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center is dedicated to the collection, preservation, research, interpretation and exhibition of historical and cultural materials reflecting all dimensions of experiences of persons of African descent living in Austin, Travis County, and in the United States
UTAH
Utah African American History Museum (coming soon)
VERMONT
Ferrisburgh
Rokeby Museum
A major exhibit — Free & Safe: The Underground Railroad in Vermont â€” brings the Underground Railroad vividly to life. Focused on Simon and Jesse, two fugitives from slavery who found shelter here in the 1830s, the exhibit traces their stories from slavery to freedom, introduces the abolitionist Robinson family who called Rokeby home, and explores the turbulent decades leading up to the Civil War.
VIRGINIA
Alexandria
Alexandria Black History Museum
The mission of the Black History Museum is to enrich the lives of Alexandria’s residents and visitors, to foster tolerance and understanding among all cultures and to stimulate appreciation of the diversity of the African American experience.
Arlington
Black Heritage Museum
The Black Heritage Museum of Arlington is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes, to acquire, preserve, catalogue and display historic items relevant to the black history of Arlington County and Northern Virginia; to develop and establish in Arlington County an institution dedicated to the exposition of African American experiences, leading to, and proceeding from the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Richmond
Black History Museum & Cultural Center
Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia preserves and honors Virginia’s African American history and culture.
Lynchburg
Legacy Museum-African American
The Legacy Museum of African American History displays exhibits on African American heritage. We are dedicated to collecting, preserving and storing historical artifacts, documents and memorabilia relating to significant contributions of the African American Community in Lynchburg and environs.
The Plains
Afro-American Historical Association Of Fauquier County
AAHA is an organization designed for the purpose of teaching a complete and accurate history of the United States by including the influences of African Americans, Native Americans of both North and South America, and European Americans.
Roanoke
Harrison Museum Of African-American Culture
Harrison Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC). We are an educational and cultural institution committed to promoting, showcasing, and celebrating the art and history of African Americans for Roanoke Valley citizens and visitors.
WASHINGTON
Seattle
Northwest African American Museum
Celebrate black history, art, and culture at NAAM. Enjoy our new exhibitions, special events, and learn more about YOURSELF in our genealogy center! Discover fun facts about the history of African Americans in the Pacific Northwest.
The James and Jane Washington Cultural Center
James and Janie Washington established a home and studio in a craftsman bungalow in Seattle’s Central District at 1816 26th Avenue. The City of Seattle designated the home as an historic landmark in 1992.
Black Diamond
Black Diamond Historical Society
The mission of the Black Diamond Historical Society shall be the discovery, preservation, and dissemination of the history of Black Diamond and environs, as it relates to King County and the State of Washington.
Washington D.C
African American Civil War Memorial & Museum
The mission of the African American Civil War Museum is to correct a great wrong in history that largely ignored the enormous contributions of the 209,145 members of the United States Colored Troops. It tells the stories and preserves for posterity the historic roles these brave men of African, European, and Hispanic descent played in ending slavery and keeping America united under one flag.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by Act of Congress in 2003, following decades of efforts to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans. To date, the Museum has collected more than 36,000 artifacts and nearly 100,000 individuals have become members.
West Virginia
none
WISCONSIN
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Black Historical Society
The mission of the Wisconsin Black Historical Society/Museum is to document and preserve the historical heritage of African descent in Wisconsin. The Museum exhibits, collects and disseminates materials depicting this heritage
Wisconsin Black Historical Society and Museum
ABHM builds public awareness of the harmful legacies of slavery in America and promotes racial repair, reconciliation, and healing.
WYOMING
none found

Honoring our Mother’s on Mother’s Day!

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Honoring our Mother’s on Mother’s Day!
 

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
– Maya Angelo
Show Notes
  1. Introduction
    • Happy Mother’s Day from co-hosts and their youngest kids.
    • Co-host Cyslie tells us about her mom and her grandmother who live in Kentucky.
  2. Skype interview clips are heard with co-host Vanessa’s mom in Ohio.
    • Verna (mom) was born in Arkansas but raised in Memphis Tennessee.
    • She has 7 siblings but was raised by her grandmother Mimi.
    • Parents and grandparents occupation which included cotton picking, homemaker and employed by a Doctor.
    • She became ill at the age of 8 years old.
    • She tells us about her life at a boarding school in Nashville.
    • Her view on racism being visually impaired.
    • Her granddaughter, Sharmell asks the last question “What advice would you give a 30-year-old like me about life?”
    • Her answer is to keep God first in your life.
       

Episode 5:Untold Story of Wally Amos

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Snow Notes or click on our blog about him!

Who is Wally Amos?

  1. Born in Florida
  2. Raised by his Aunt
  3. Fist black agent for William Morris Agency

Agent

  1. First agent for William Morris Agency?
  2. Represented Marvin Gaye, Simon & Garfunkel, Diana Ross, etc
  3. Why he left WMA?

Management Company

  1. He represented Hugh from South Africa who ended up dropping him as an agent
  2. He closed his company to for a cookie business

Famous Amos Cookies

  1. How it all began from his Aunt ‘s recipe
  2. Selling this company
  3. His involvement
  4. What went wrong?

Where is Wally Amos Now?

  1. He doesn’t make any money from Famous Amos anymore.

Episode 4: Connecting Kids with Black History

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Connecting Kids with Black History
PODCAST NOTES
In this episode, we interview our oldest kids, Miles (age 7) and Kaleb (age 8) about their knowledge of Black History.
About
  • Miles is 7 years old and is in 1st grade. He is the son of co-host Vanessa.
  • Kaleb is 8 years old and is in 2nd grade. He is the son of co-host Cyslie.
  • They both live in Chicago.
Black history historians
  • Jesse Owens. Miles talks about him as the first black track Olympic medalist who won 4 gold medals.
  • He is from Ohio and attended Ohio State University
  • Kaleb stated he wrote a letter to Rosa Parks for his school assignment during Black history month. They discussed that she sat in front of the bus in Alabama and was told to sit in the back.  She didn’t and was arrested.
  • Both boys told us about Martin Luther King Jr. They talked about his background, his family and how he changed segregation.
  • They said a little of his “I Have a Dream” speech.
  • They told us what they learned from these Black historians.
What they want to be when they grow up
  • Miles said he wants to be a police officer or an astronaut.
  • Kaleb was confident that he wanted to be a Scientist. Not just any scientist, he wants to study rocks!
Co-hosts/Moms discussed the interview:
  • What we thought about their knowledge of Black history.
  • Our reactions to their comments regarding what they want to be when they grow up.
Thank you!
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