Locked in silent conversation, MFA, Ph.D Grant Wood Fellow Christopher-Rasheem McMillan uses dance and movement to reflect on race relations in America. Starting with the death of Emmett Till and culminating with the Black Lives Matter movement, Christopher-Rasheem McMillan re-imagines Trisha Brown's 1975 work Locus to address African Americans' interactions with law enforcement, past and […]
Dr. Deborah Whaley comes back to the AAMI discuss Aaron McGruder’s comic strip and hit television program, The Boondocks. She examines the social and political dialogue present in both forms of this popular work. The Boondocks is rated TV-MA and specifically designed to be viewed by adults. Clips may be unsuitable for children under 17.
Enjoy a movie night on us! We invite our 2016 volunteers and their families to the CRPL to see "Night at the Museum." Look for the invitation in your inbox!
Whether their topics were slavery, war, freedom, community, or family, African-American women in the nineteenth century contended with restrictions on what they could and could not write. As writers, they maneuvered within those restrictions in fascinating ways. Rebecca Entel, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Cornell College, will discuss a range of writers […]
Enjoy free evening admission at the AAMI for Juneteenth Education day!
The AAMI will host a screening of the Netflix original documentary "13th." In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists, and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom. Viewer discretion is advised for audiences younger than 15 years old. Karl Cassell, President/CEO, Horizons A Family Service Alliance, will host a discussion following the screening. […]
Join the AAMI Saturday, June 17 from 11:00am-4:00pm for a celebration of freedom at Viola Gibson Park. Enjoy a variety of food vendors, a health station, community information booths and live performances by jazz performer Kevin Burt, magician Zach Percell, and spoken word artist Micah Ariel James. Children’s activities include face painting with Princess Pride, balloon art […]
The Museum will be closed on Monday, July 3 and Tuesday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day. We will resume our regular hours on Wednesday, July 5.
The Museum will be closed on Monday, July 3 and Tuesday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day. We will resume our regular hours on Wednesday, July 5.
Dr. Brian Behnken is an Associate Professor of the History at Iowa State University whose scholarship has explored relations between Latino/as and African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement, police violence, and ethno-racial forms of nationalism, among other subjects. In his book, Racism in American Popular Media: From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito, he […]
