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'It all tells a story': Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City highlights history of kente
As Juneteenth approaches, a new exhibit at the Black Archives of Mid-America is educating visitors on a long-standing tradition.
Bay Area museum defies federal funding cuts with powerful African American quilt show
Even after losing more than $260,000 in federal support for its latest exhibition, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive isn’t backing down. “We will persist. We will continue,” BAMPFA ...
Dedar & Stephen Burks Join Forces With Gee's Bend Quilters in Honor of Black Handcraft
The Italian textile manufacturer donated fabrics for a special collection of 10 quilts made by designer Stephen Burks and the ...
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Why Cultural Competence Is Important In African American Mental Healthcare
Approximately 7 million African Americans experience mental illness in a given year, according to Mental Health America, but only a small fraction get adequate treatment. Psychiatry.org notes just one ...
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African and African American Studies
The African & African American Studies (AFAM) program offers the B.A. degree in African & African American Studies. AFAM has the mission to provide studies with a broad, interdisciplinary education ...
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Four Generations of Quilts Come Out of the Family ‘Treasure Chest’
The work of the African American quilters Laverne Brackens ... She gave in to the family legacy and picked up the sewing needle. Ideas for patterns “would just flow through me, sometimes in ...
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New Orleans holds burial of repatriated African Americans whose skulls were used in racist research
New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century. On Saturday ...
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Harvard University Agrees To Transfer Early Photographs Of Enslaved People To African American Museum After Years Long Legal Battle
The photographs will now be housed at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina — the state where Renty and Delia were once enslaved. NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 20 ...
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Groveland hosts first Memorial Day ceremony at restored African American Cemetery
Read full article: Oak Tree Union Colored Cemetery restored in Groveland ...
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Denver community upset with temporary removal of artifacts from African-American Research Library
Denver Public Library's interim director apologizes after removal of replica of prop desk 02:53 A controversy has been brewing at Denver's Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library after ...
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Overcoming barriers to recruitment and retention of African–American women with SLE in behavioural interventions: lessons learnt from the WELL study
The Women Empowered to Live with Lupus (WELL) study is a trial conducted to examine the effectiveness of the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) among African–American women with SLE. We ...
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The African American experience during World War II
Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. The Internet Archive keeps the record straight by preserving government websites, news publications, historical documents, and more. If you find ...