Black History Month begins today and to commemorate the occasion The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum in Peterboro will be launching a new series of virtual daily “crash courses.”
The series is titled, “Black History Matters.”
The 28 short videos will address various aspects of Black American history and culture and “provide critical context for the ongoing racial justice movements and the persistence of racism in America.”
Access of the videos will be free and a new one will be made every day throughout February.
The videos will be released daily on the Hall of Fame and Museum’s YouTube channel and will be shared on it’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Visit www.nationalabolitionhalloffameandmuseum.org to learn more about the program and see a complete list of themes covered by the videos.
The series begins on Monday, Feb. 1 with a welcome and a program overview with Victoria Basulto, a Colgate University senior, and a Colgate Upstate Institute intern, who was the manager of the program.
The programs the rest of this first week includes such topics as the beginning of slavery in the English colonies starting in 1619, the survival of the Gullah Geeche culture of coastal South Carolina and Georgia, and the abolition of slavery in New York State in 1827.
On Friday, Feb. 5, the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum's "Back History Matters" virtual courses study the abolition of slavery in New York State in 1827.
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