Celebrating Black History Month in Washington DC
Visit the Anacostia Community Museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution which features exhibits, workshops, films and programs of African American history and culture from the 1800s to the present.
Commemorate the USCT, a troop of African American soldiers who served in the Civil War at the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum. The museum displays documents and amazing photographs for visitors to learn about this integral part of American history.
Visit the home of ex-slave Frederick Douglas whose house named Cedar Hill is now the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site.
Black History Month Family Festival (S. Dillon Ripley Center; 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW; Discovery Theater, Room 3111; 11a.m.-3p.m.)
Celebrate Black History Month with the entire family and participate in a day of arts, crafts, music and education. You can also check out the new exhibit at the National Museum of African American History, “Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968”.
Take a tour of Old Town Alexandria where visitors are educated on the rich local and regional history of many sites.
This month, the Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum of Washington, D.C. will host exhibits intended to raise awareness of Black History Month and learn important lessons about African American figures like Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye and Tiger Woods, who have all been set in wax.
Grupo Bahía (February 26, 2009; 6:30 PM; IDB Cultural Center)
The IDB Cultural Center in association with the Embassy of Colombia and the Ministry of Culture of Colombia are honoring Black History Month through a concert by the famed Colombian quartet, Grupo Bahia.
