By Eric Easter Urban News Service The just-opened National Museum of African American History and Culture is a work-in-progress — in every way. Surprisingly, this is its best asset. In one way, that description is literal. On Media Day, less than 10 days before its grand opening, the museum’s grounds still were littered with the […]
District Ministers Call for Removal of Margaret Sanger Bust from the National Portrait Gallery
By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Planned Parenthood, the abortion rights group, recently came under attack from a group of local ministers, known collectively as Ministers Taking a Stand. The group is demanding that the bust of the organization’s founder, Margaret Sanger, be removed from a Smithsonian exhibit celebrating […]
Special Find in South Africa for African-American Museum
By Sadijah Wallace June 26, 2015 Sadijah Wallace is Special to the NNPA from Howard University News Service. WASHINGTON, D.C. – It was the find that Lonnie Bunch III and the new National Museum of African American History and Culture had searched for so desperately – the remains of one of […]