Join City officials and staff as we launch a day of online programming celebrating Juneteenth Includes an introduction to the history of Juneteenth with Curator of Education Rodney Dawson at 9:30 and a Deeper Inside Project Democracy video about the Emancipation Proclamation at 9:45. Access the program at the City of Greensboro Facebook page Part […]
The singer, composer and Greensboro native talks with Curator of Exhibits Robert Harris about bringing African American history to life through music, storytelling and performance. Topics include Giddens’s ongoing composition focused on the Wilmington coup and massacre of 1898 and her opera Omar, about the Islamic scholar enslaved in North Carolina in the early 1800s, […]
Curator of Education Rodney Dawson visits Dame's Chicken & Waffles to learn about culinary traditions associated with Juneteenth celebrations. Access the program at the City of Greensboro Facebook page Part of the GSO Summer Online Juneteenth celebration. Click here for more information Download a special Juneteenth recipe from Dame's! Download recipe
The Fifteenth Amendment, which prevents states from excluding voters on the basis of race, is 150 years old this year. Yet the fulfillment of its promises has been a long struggle that continues today. GHM Curator of Community History Glenn Perkins talks with NCCU Law Professor Irving Joyner, Greensboro Public Library’s Danielle Pritchett and Leila […]
Curator of Education Rodney Dawson talks to Dr. Arwin Smallwood of the Department of History & Political Science at North Carolina A&T State University about Greensboro connections to Juneteenth and other emancipation celebrations. Click here to register for the program on Zoom or Watch live on our Facebook page Part of the GSO Summer Online […]
Curator of Education Rodney Dawson moderates a forum with Black Greek Letter Organization presidents about education, achievement and service. Access the program at the City of Greensboro Facebook page Part of the GSO Summer Online Juneteenth celebration. Click here for more information
The Durham-based tech consultancy CrossComm Inc. developed "Gerrymander Madness: The Anti-Democracy VR Game" for the Greensboro History Museum's Project Democracy 20/20 initiative. CrossComm CEO Don Shin joins us on this week's History Lunch Break to talk about technology, civic engagement and more. Video recording https://www.facebook.com/GHMuseum/videos/251522826148949/
