Artist Keith Ramsey will speak on Diluted Loss this Saturday, June 19 at 1PM at the Black History Museum.

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Members of the Upsilon Nu Chapter, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc, and the Upsilon Nu Scholarship and Social Action Foundation, Inc. hosted the official opening reception in recognition of the artistic exhibit, “An Officer and A Gentlemen”, Selections From the Colonel Charles Young Collection. Held at the Black History Museum, the exhibit features important pictures, a computer information kiosk and other important artifacts that pay tribute to this great war hero and fellow member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.

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The American Civil War Center has info on Take Our Stand: the African American Military Experience in the Age of Jim Crow:

Take Our Stand: the African American Military Experience in the Age of Jim Crow is a new exhibit from the American Civil War Center that chronicles the Black military experience from the Spanish-American War to the desegregation of the U.S. military in 1948.

Take Our Stand features rare historic images and documents reproduced from the Center’s John H. Motley Collection, an interactive lesson plan for students, and feedback panels where visitors can record their reactions. Location: Richmond’s Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia from Feb. 5-May 29. Take Our Stand was funded in part by a grant from The Community Foundation.

Last week the RTD reported that “an ambitious three-year project to digitize more than 300,000 state records from the Freedmen’s Bureau archives has been completed and now is available online“. A recent email from Stacy Burrs, Chairman of the Board of the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, announces that the Black History Museum will be leading “an historic partnership [...] to locate and make available to the public all of the records documenting the marriages of newly freed slaves”.

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This Friday from 6-8:30PM is the opening reception for What is Africa to Me? at the Black History Museum. This exhibition encourages viewers to use the lenses of Malian history and culture to consider and interpret for themselves the connections between Virginia and Africa. Exhibition created in partnership with the Virginia Friends of Mali. Exhibit runs April 17 – June 20, 2009.

All are invited to a meet&greet this evening with Democratic gubernatorial hopeful candidate Terry McAuliffe at the Black History Museum (00 Clay Street)(6:30-8:30PM). If you have any questions or to R.S.V.P. please contact Adrian Baker at 571-633-4833 or via email at adrian.baker@terrymcauliffe.com.

Dr.Maureen G. Elgersman Lee, professor at ODU, has been named as the executive director of the Black History Museum according to the Richmond Free Press:

“This is a wonderful opportunity [...] My overall goal is to raise the profile of this institution. I want to make it the go-to place for black history in Richmond and beyond,” said Dr. Elgersman Lee.

The African American Book Fair has been announced for November 1 from 11AM-4PM at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia. Festival is free with museum admission. Authors are needed! Contact Patricia Jordan at 804-319-9763 or africanamericanbookfair@yahoo.com to find out more!

The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia will feature a gallery talk this Friday (9/5 6-8PM) in conjunction with the exhibition, Heirlooms by J. W. Robinson Horne, featuring original fashion designs of this native Richmonder. This exhibition features 35 selected designs from his collections: Fall Drama, Paris Inspired, University, Bridal, 1776, Couturier and Spring1950 Collections. Also featured are three designs from his “Carousel of Coats” Collection. These Heirloom Fashion Designs by J. W. Robinson Horne will be on display through September 30, 2008.

On Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 6PM, the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia will feature Dr. John Kneebone, who will lecture on the topic “An Aquatic Branch of the Underground Railroad: The James River and the Keziah Affair of 1858″.

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The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia will host Ashby Anderson’s The Historic Richmond Jazz Suite at 3:00PM Sunday, April 20th, at Muse Creative Workspace (6 North 19th Street).

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Nicole Hood, interim director of the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, is leaving:

Just a year after taking the reins at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Nicole Hood is leaving to spend more time with her family.

“Everybody’s skeptical when you use those terms,” Stacy Burrs, chair of the museum’s board, says of the proverbial “family” line. “But this is one of those cases where that is the fact of the matter.”