Museum of African American History

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part II
Hill Harper
October 3, 2009
01:31:12
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Fre
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part I
Malik Neal
October 3, 2009
00:50:40
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Fre
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Mr. and Mrs. Prince: Out of Slavery and Into Legend
Gretchen Gerzina Holbrook
June 12, 2008
00:54:01
Gretchen Gerzina Holbrook, author of Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend, tells the remarkable true story of a pre-Civil War African-American family in New England. Mr. and Mrs.
Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom
David W. Blight
May 8, 2008
00:48:05
David W. Blight, Yale professor and historian, discusses his latest work, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation.
Museums Online: New Ways to Visit Museums
Katherine Burton Jones
April 30, 2008
01:17:04
Katherine Burton Jones discusses how museums are serving and being shaped by new audiences, using Web 2.0 technologies. Burton Jones assistant dean of Media Services at Harvard Divinity School, discusses new multimedia approaches to the museum experience.
Electing a Black President
Michael Eric Dyson
November 8, 2007
01:39:59
Michael Eric Dyson and a panel of black elected officials discuss the possibility of electing a black president as we head into an historical election year.
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African Meeting House Bicentennial Celebration
Deval Patrick
December 6, 2006
01:50:51
Massachusetts governor elect Deval Patrick, Boston City mayor Thomas M. Menino and others join the Museum of African American History in celebrating the 200th anniversary of the African Meeting House.
Paul Farmer: Tout Moun Se Moun
Tracy Kidder
May 10, 2006
00:42:21
In his book Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder chronicles the work of Dr.