Today we honor and celebrate the service and sacrifice of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. To honor his legacy, the AAMI will have free admission from 10am-4pm and table top children's activities from 11am-3pm.  

Join us for an MLK Day Celebration sponsored by the Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission, Cedar Rapids Public Library, and The African American Museum of Iowa.  Information on current public sector job openings will be available from 4:00-5:30pm in the library lobby followed by a reading of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day proclamation […]

Did you know that African Americans have been inventing and innovating in a variety of fields, including engineering? Get to know one amazing Iowan engineer and use the same skills he does to make a model bridge of your own!  

Civil rights and civil liberties are something that the African American community spent hundreds of years fighting towards. Before much of today's well known federal legislation was passed, state and local community members organized grassroots efforts that led to nationwide changes. Explore the struggles and triumphs of the fight for equal rights, both nationwide and […]

Join William Jones, author and founder of the Afrofuturism Network, as he discusses and signs copies of his book The Ex-Con, Voodoo Priest, Goddess, and the African King: A Social Cultural, and Political Analysis of Four Black Comic Book Heroes, which provides a history of black comic book characters and draws parallels between comic book […]