Several institutions are creating new initiatives and platforms to educate mainstream audiences about African American history that is often left out of many classrooms. This week it was announced that six of the leading museums centered around Black American culture are now coming together to create a new platform in honor of Juneteenth in light of the current events.
BLKFREEDOM is a new digital platform that commemorates of one of the country’s oldest holidays, Juneteenth, featuring an original video presentation with Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Johnetta Betsch Cole, the first female African American president of Spelman College, and the Honorable Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, the first woman and the first African American to lead the national library.
The platform was brought together by the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (Detroit, MI), Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park (Hill Head Island, SC), Northwest African American Museum (Seattle, WA), Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater (Miami, FL), National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati, OH), and the National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, TN).