Summer Burn: POUND® with Trisha Brink

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

We are excited to continue a new summer tradition of fitness programming at the Museum. Join us every week in August for a variety of fitness activities to get your blood pumping and your sweat flowing, all while having lots of fun! This year we are partnering with the YMCA of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan […]

Free

When the Great Migration Met the Black Diaspora

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

Rescheduled from May 23, this event is now taking place on August 8. As countless writers and scholars have chronicled, black migration transformed the culture, politics, and social life of the United States in the mid-twentieth century, when the sons and daughters of Mississippi and Alabama and Georgia and North Carolina set off for new […]

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Summer Burn: STRONG by Zumba® with Denise Jones

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

We are excited to continue a new summer tradition of fitness programming at the Museum. Join us every week in August for a variety of fitness activities to get your blood pumping and your sweat flowing, all while having lots of fun! This year we are partnering with the YMCA of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan […]

Free

NewBo Community Blood Drive

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

From the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center: Join us at the African American Museum of Iowa in the Aldeen Davis Celebration Hall for a blood drive on Saturday, August 17th from 10:00am - 1:00pm! All presenting donors will receive a voucher for a $10 gift card to Amazon, Casey's, Dairy Queen, or Domino's! Please bring […]

Summer Burn: POUND® with Trisha Brink

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

We are excited to continue a new summer tradition of fitness programming at the Museum. Join us every week in August for a variety of fitness activities to get your blood pumping and your sweat flowing, all while having lots of fun! This year we are partnering with the YMCA of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan […]

Free

Not Without Me! – Interfacing With the Education Process

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

Join us in the mobilization of parents and community members by participating in this series* of community forums at the African American Museum of Iowa. Together we will identify obstacles and opportunities for parental and community involvement in the education process of our children. Help us create change for our children, tomorrow's leaders. This event […]

Free

Summer Burn: Zumba® with Denise Jones

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

We are excited to continue a new summer tradition of fitness programming at the Museum. Join us every week in August for a variety of fitness activities to get your blood pumping and your sweat flowing, all while having lots of fun! This year we are partnering with the YMCA of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan […]

Free

Well Read Black Girl Book Club: Hunger

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

Our August book club selection will be Hunger by Roxane Gay. From the Publisher: In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. […]

Story Time at Next Page Books

Next Page Books 1105 3rd St SE, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

Next Page Books will be hosting a story time featuring books about children of color and their relationship with their hair. Please note this is a third party event organized by members of Senator Cory Booker's local campaign staff. Details available here.

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Exhibit Opening: Untangling the Roots

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

Join us from 10 AM to 4 PM on September 7 to celebrate the opening of our new exhibit! The galleries will be available through regular admission rates. Visitors will also have the chance to enter to win tickets to Hancher Auditorium's upcoming presentation of Urban Bush Women's Hair and Other Stories.