Black History Matters is a series of twenty-eight virtual introductory short “crash courses” addressing various aspects of Black American history and culture. The videos will provide critical context for the ongoing racial justice movements and the persistence of racism in America.
The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum (NAHOF) invites the public to partake in twenty-eight free Black History Matters programs beginning February 1, 2021. No registration is required for these brief “crash courses” which address various aspects of Black American history and culture in order to provide critical context for the ongoing racial justice movements and the persistence of racism in America. Those who view the Black History Matters videos and complete a survey about their experience with the series will receive a certificate from the Peterboro Academy and an annual membership to the Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum.
NAHOF believes that a significant number of Americans do not understand the current racial justice protests due to their unfamiliarity with four centuries of Black American history. NAHOF believes that education is a powerful step toward ending racism and that understanding the history of the enslavement and dehumanization of Black Americans provides critical context for the ongoing racial justice movements and the persistence of racism in America.
The National Abolition Hall of Fame and (NAHOF) is chartered by the Board of Regents/New York State Education Department. NAHOF honors antislavery abolitionists, their work to end slavery, and the legacy of that struggle, and strives to complete the second, and ongoing abolition – the moral conviction to end racism. NAHOF is located in historic Peterboro NY in the two-hundred-year-old building in which state abolitionists held the inaugural meeting of the New York State Antislavery Society in 1835. The Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark is an Underground Railroad site just down the street. The Gerrit Smith Estate and the Colgate University Upstate Institute are collaborators for the Black History Matters project.
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The videos will be released on NAHOF's YouTube channel . A new video will be made live every day in February. Learn more about the program and see the complete list of themes covered by the videos.
