January 17, 2021
Link to the full proceedings of the December 1869 Black labor convention chaired by Isaac Myers. (These proceedings were published by Frederick Douglas at the printing press of the New Era newspaper on April 4th, 1870.)
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Born November 23, 1985
The Annual Holiday Trees For Peace Fundraiser is a community tradition that has been co-sponsored by the AAHM&CC and the Umojafest Peace Center for over a decade!
Started in 2008, this tree sale for the defense of Black lives has been organized each year ever since (with the one exception of 2019, when it was rudely and illegally interrupted by the gentrification firm known as “Lake Union Partners”, who chose to breach their contract with the African American community that year).
In 2020, starting on our 35th Annual Founders Day! (November 23rd), the African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center is proudly hosting this community function at OUR OWN LAND AND BUILDING, rightfully purchased by us in 1998!
We are very thankful for all of the participants in this year’s George Floyd peoples democratic uprising against lynching and apartheid, who are enforcing Article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights so that we can finally use our own land!
Our affordably price trees are right to fit YOUR budget.
Tell all your family, friends, church and other groups about this opportunity to continue being part of the change.
Trees are available for pick up daily at 2300 S Massachusetts St, Seattle, WA 98144.
To place your order today, please call 206 717-1685
If you do not want a tree but would like to support by making a contribution please do so at https://gf.me/u/ypksuc.
Thank you for your consideration and we hope that you can help us make the promise of change a reality.
Thank you.
The African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center
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BLACK INSTITUTIONS MATTER!
AAHM&CC 35TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!
CLICK HERE TO WATCH A NARRATED PRESENTATION OF THE SLIDESHOW BELOW
On November 23rd, 2020, the African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center literally celebrated 12,784 continuous days of protest against the overfunding of police and the underfunding of positive community institutions!
On that day, from 1-6pm, the people gathered for a safe socially distanced celebration of our Founder’s Day!
Watch our video of the event to learn about the true history of the occupation of the Colman School from the freedom fighters who began the struggle over three decades ago.
The people enjoyed free screen printing, live performances, light refreshments, and HOLIDAY TREES FOR PEACE!https://africanamericanheritagemuseumandculturalcenter.org/2020/11/23/african-aamerican-heritage-museum-and-cultural-center-to-host-the-annual-trees-for-peace-fundraiser-opening-on-the-35th-founders-day-november-23d/
We also revealed our NEW HISTORY EXHIBIT! and discussed how to support the ongoing struggle for a world-class Black institution that will fight against displacement and gentrification here in Seattle!
Alongside our HISTORY EXHIBIT!, we also proudly unveiled our latest traveling art exhibition: a photography display by renowned local artist Inye Wokoma!
We live streamed our event via our IG and FB! #FreeTheLand#PayTheFee#BlackInstituitionsMatter
PLEASE DONATE HELMETS, HARDHATS, SHOULDER PADS
TO PROTECT OUR VULNERABLE VOLUNTEERS!
Yesterday (October 12th, 2020), at approximately 6 pm, without warning or provocation, two Caucasian goons began hurling projectiles down from the high rooftop of the NAAM/UL-occupied building, into the gravel courtyard where the authentic African American Heritage Museum is conducting our operations.
The first knowledge we had of this attack was the sound of the first projectile hitting the tarpaulin roof of the studio of our co-founding Artist In Residence, Earl Debman, who is disabled and uses a wheelchair. He was very shaken by the surprise attack, describing it as “like the sound of a bomb going off”.
Initially thinking that the projectile had come out of a window, we were then ambushed again –several minutes later—by a second projectile hitting the roof of traveling exhibit tent on the opposite side of the courtyard, this time from an angle that clearly originated from the rooftop.
Turning our attention to the roof, we observed two partially masked but clearly Caucasian individuals crouching behind the roof’s parapet wall, briefly emerging every few minutes to lob another projectile down upon us and our outdoor ground level museum tents. The projectiles turned out to be clods of wet dirt of the sort that is often fills indoor flower pots. These clods were definitely heavy enough to injure a person when thrown from that height.
The attackers kept up their assault for about fifteen minutes, presumably until they ran out of dirt clods to throw. Then they exited the roof back into the building through a trapdoor, to which they obviously had access from the inside, access which they could only have obtained through the auspices of the Urban League.
This is exactly the kind of white supremacist vigilante violence that the Urban League promotes and encourages against Black people and authentically Black-led organizations. This time the projectiles were only heavy, but at least soft. Next time, who knows?
This attack also apparently constitutes the Urban League’s long awaited reply to our last letter to them, which we hand delivered to their spokespeople on August 28th. In this letter, we proposed that a meeting between our organizations take place exactly one month later, September 28th, in Jimi Hendrix Park. We were present in that park throughout the entire day of September 28th, setting up our David Walker Exhibit.
Due to the escalating risk of injury to our volunteers from the increasingly violent vigilantism of the Urban League’s agents, we are calling upon the community to donate helmets, hardhats and shoulder pads to our museum, to increase our volunteers’ chances of surviving future projectile attacks from above.
-The AAHM&CC
The African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center 