The National Museum of African American History and Culture, colloquially known as the Blacksonian, is a Smithsonian Institution museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was established in 2003 and opened its permanent home in 2016 with a ceremony led by President Barack Obama.
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The African Meetinghouse on Nantucket, is a sacred space. As a Congregational Minister with a home on Nantucket, I have been privileged to be given permission to have weddings, Christmas Eve services, and baptisms at the Meetinghouse. I always mention to groups some of the important history of the African American community which used the Meetinghouse for lectures on its history, education, worship, meetings, and concerts. It is a very...
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To think that Captain Absalom Boston prepared the New Guinea African Meeting House on Nantucket Island historically that would be the place where Frederick Douglass a newly freed slave, living in New New Bedford MA would begin his stellar and international career as a public speaker is testimony to this sacred and all-purpose church, school, and what I call #American Democracys...
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Their website says that they are open for tours with reservations and they had a page to reserve one, so we did so one day before. I am now holding the email confirmation in my hand in front of the museum that’s completely empty and their phone number doesn’t go through. We planned our day around this. Don’t...
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