The Historical pastMakers Program, Entertainment Makers: On Screen and Behind the Scenes, Streams Today, January thirteenth, at 8pm CT | TV/Streaming

The Historical pastMakers, headquartered in Chicago, is a 501 (c)(3) group and is the world’s largest African American video oral historical past archive and depository. Twenty years in the past, legal professional Julieanna Richardson appeared round and noticed that a lot of the public information of the Black expertise and the contributions of African Americans was extraordinarily restricted and in some cases, dangerous to American society as an entire. So she got down to analysis, collect data and interviews and doc and protect achievements and historical past. Historical pastMakers was born.

With schooling as its mission, its one-of-a-kind assortment is housed completely on the Library of Congress and gives an unprecedented and irreplaceable bodily and on-line document of African American lives, accomplishments, and contributions by way of distinctive first-person testimony. The Historical pastMakers Digital Archive helps in-person, digital and hybrid studying fashions and skilled vital development in the course of the pandemic. 

For extra data, go to the official web site of The Historical pastMakers.