Tag: alexandria black history museum
Out of the Attic: Alexandria Black History Museum reopens
The Alexandria Black History Museum will return to normal business hours the first week of March. The museum has been closed for almost three...
Honoring Alexandria lynching victims
By Liana Hardy | [email protected]
The Alexandria Community Remembrance Project has opened registration for its pilgrimage to Mongtomery, AL, from Oct. 6 to 10, which...
Genealogist traces lives and histories of African American families
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
Char McCargo Bah did not learn about Alexandria’s Black history until she was 30.
“We were taking this Black history tour,...
Local site added to Civil Rights Network: Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery...
By Katherine Hapgood | [email protected]
The work of a citizen-led effort has finally come to fruition as the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial will be...
Alexandria celebrates Juneteenth
By Olivia Anderson | [email protected]
With Juneteenth now a federal holiday, the first new addition since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983, public awareness about...
Online exhibit memorializes city’s response to George Floyd murder
By Olivia Anderson | [email protected]
Though it remains closed, on Tuesday the Alexandria Black History Museum launched an online exhibition titled “Preserving Their Names,” exactly...
Audrey Davis shines a light on city’s past at Black History...
By Allison Hageman | [email protected]
Last summer at the Alexandria vigils for George Floyd, Audrey P. Davis, director of the Alexandria Black History Museum, collected...
Out of the Attic: The Moss Kendrix Collection at the Black...
Voting is still open until Jan. 20 in the Virginia Association of Museums’ Top 10 Endangered Artifact competition and a collection at the Alexandria...
Alexandria Black History Museum seeks grant
By Will Schick | [email protected]
The Alexandria Black History Museum is competing in the Virginia Association of Museums’ Top 10 Endangered Artifact competition, in the...
City launches new African American Heritage Trail
By Lindsey Sullivan | [email protected]
Earlier this month, the City of Alexandria released a new virtual history tour that details the significance of African Americans...
