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Charles Ogletree on Barack Obama

Charles J. Ogletree Jr.

February 24, 2010

In a one-on-one interview with preeminent journalist Carole Simpson, Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree discusses his former student, President Barack Obama--his presidential campaign, his first year in office, and the effects his election has had on local and state elections nationwide.

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part II

October 3, 2009

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 Lincol

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part I

October 3, 2009

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 Lincol

Mr. and Mrs. Prince: Out of Slavery and Into Legend

Gretchen Gerzina Holbrook

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

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

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

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.

African Meeting House Bicentennial Celebration

December 6, 2006

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.