The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s May programming features a special conversation on the landmark African Burial Ground project that revealed a greater history behind slavery in the North. The discussion explores what can be learned from Black cemeteries and how the understanding of slavery in the North has changed since the discovery of the six-acre burial ground containing the remains of enslaved and free Africans who lived and worked in colonial New York.
The museum continues its robust virtual programming this month with a poetry workshop exploring the poetic form of “golden shovel” poetry and compose a poem based upon Marsha P. Johnson, noted gay rights activist, self-identified drag queen, and performer and a film screening dedicated to the inner life and identity of Black life.
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