“Statements: African American Art from the Museum’s Collection” — Museum of Fine Arts HoustonStatements: African American Art from the Museum's Collection is the latest in a series of focused installations highlighting unique areas of strength in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Featuring artists who have shaped the course of American art across [...]
The Green Book: “Negro Motorists” Navigating a Segregated Nation A forthcoming documentary by New York City-based filmmaker and playwright Calvin Alexander Ramsey with director and co-producer Becky Wible Searles will focus on a black visionary entrepreneur who set out to make travel easier and safer for African-Americans during segregation. Victor H. Green, a 44-year-old postal [...]
Northeast Texas African-American Digital Collection For years, documents vital to the history of African-Americans in Northeast Texas gathered dust in storage or were known only to a few people. However, the African-American History Collection, part of the Northeast Texas Digital Collections at Texas A&M University-Commerce, provides an online archive that allows people around the world [...]
“Race films”: Unearthing the lost history of African American cinema A Kickstarter-funded restoration and distribution project – Kino Lorber’s ‘Pioneers of African American Cinema’ – aims to shine a long-overdue spotlight on the trailblazing wave of black American independent film-making that flourished in the early part of the 20th century. Executive produced by Paul D [...]
PVAMU Alum Nathelyne Kennedy, P.E., named 2016 Houston Engineer of the Year Prairie View A&M University congratulates distinguished alumna Nathelyne Archie Kennedy, P.E. on being named the 2016 Houston Engineer of the Year by Houston's branch of the National Engineers' Week Foundation. Kennedy founded her own engineering consultancy in 1981, and has since built Nathelyne A. [...]
National Museum for African American History announces Sep. 24 public opening The Smithsonian has announced that the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will open to the public this fall on Saturday, September 24. The opening will be the focus of a week-long celebration that begins with a dedication ceremony lead by [...]
“Down the Road: A Journey of 140 Years” honors women in PV’s history In this year, we will celebrate 140 years of Prairie View A&M University. The bill creating the University was signed August 14, 1876 creating Alta Vista Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for Colored Youth. Though the first students to enroll in [...]
LBJ’s condolence letter to MLK widow and Civil Rights art exhibit on display at LBJ Library Two new exhibits at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin will feature the condolence letter President Johnson sent to Coretta King after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and a Civil Rights art exhibit, "The Continual Struggle" by [...]
Ken Burns’ “Jackie Robinson” film set for April release on PBSThe 2016 Major League Baseball season will mark 69 years since the historic breakthrough by Jackie Robinson with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The movie, "42," was released three years ago, documenting the trials and tribulations of Robinson successfully breaking the MLB color line and this spring [...]
1.38 million Afro-descendants identified on Mexican census for first time During the late 16th and early 17th century there were more Africans in Mexico -- then called "New Spain" -- than Spaniards, who brought Africans to the territory as slaves for work in the gold and silver mines, fields, and other tasks. In 1570, the [...]
