RACINE, Wisc. — A Racine non-profit is planning to construct the town’s first Black historic museum and cultural heart.
Mahogany Black Artwork & Cultural Heart Included is planning to create Racine’s first everlasting and bodily house for the preservation, analysis, and exhibition of Racine County Black historical past.
In keeping with a information launch, a number of historic contribution of the Black expertise in Racine County has disappeared or not sufficiently been documented and preserved.
The middle will characteristic bodily reveals, artifacts, pictures, artwork, literature, an archive of digital oral histories.
“Now could be an thrilling time to reinvigorate the legacies by educating and sharing our historic experiences as a Black group. We have now been an integral a part of the historical past of Racine County since its humble beginnings and now, greater than ever is the time to create a everlasting, bodily house for the preservation, exhibition and analysis of Racine County Black historical past” states CEO and founder Scott Terry.
