June 17, 2021
The TIPHC is celebrating Juneteenth becoming a national holiday with a virtual exhibit that looks at how this holiday’s celebration has evolved since 1866. This online exhibition also provides insight for those who are curious about what this new federal holiday is all about. The exhibit looks at the earliest celebrations and how they have changed, or not. We are exploring festive community gatherings through the years and how this phenomenon expanded as a result of the Great Migration as well as the international festivities occurring at this time. Milwaukee boasts of having the largest Juneteenth celebration in the country, hosting as many as 70,000 celebrants who “feel a kinship to Galveston.”
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March 24, 2023
This year’s PVAMU Founders Day and Honors Recognition Convocation is proudly hosted by the School of Architecture with the theme, “Designing Our Tomorrow Today, Building on Our Legacy.” Click here to view our online exhibit/presentation for the event as we look at the university’s history, profile all sixteen PVAMU presidents including our current leader Ruth Simmons, and look at the School of Architecture, led by Dean Ikhlas Sabouni. The SOA is the top producer of African American Architects in the country.
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February 1, 2021
For this exhibit, the TIPHC builds on the 2021 national Black History Month theme, The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity: “The black family has been a topic of study in many disciplines—history, literature, the visual arts, and film studies, sociology, anthropology, and social policy. Its representation, identity, and diversity have been reverenced, stereotyped, and vilified from the days of slavery to our own time…the family offers a rich tapestry of images for exploring the African American past and present.”
Far from an exhaustive study of this complex topic, we offer through historic and contemporary photos and images, examples of how black families were defined in Western Africa before their forced removal in chains to North American colonies in the 1600s, how family structures and traditions were broken yet survived enslavement and how the media – TV, movies, magazines, etc. – have both advanced and distorted the perceptions of black families, bolstering racist stereotypes but also displaying families’ loving kinship, togetherness, success, and support.
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