The African American Heritage Museum and Cultural Center (AAHMCC) exists to promote and preserve the history, culture, traditions and achievements of African Americans. It will serve as a focal point for African Americans of all generations as well as the broader community to celebrate and to share an appreciation and reverence for the African diaspora, through exhibits, tours, research, educational programs, performances and various cultural activities.
The effort to build the African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center was a proactive response to the negative conditions existing in the African American community.
These conditions including disproportionate levels of broken homes, crime, academic failure, drugs, violence, incarceration, lack of economic development and unemployment are a direct result of the cultural and socio-economic damages caused by the African Holocaust commonly referred to as the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and the institutionalized oppression of African peopled that followed.
The museum and cultural center will promote an understanding of the distinct and unique contributions made by Africans and African Americans to the western world and to the Pacific Northwest. Simultaneously, it will provide educational programs in the arts and heritage discipline which fosters positive, experiential learning alternatives for youth.
Our vision for the AAHMCC is to be a world class facility with traditional gallery and multi-media exhibit space, state of the art audio and video production facilities, community based radio and television production facilities, movie theatre, youth and community business incubator, natural health clinic, bookstore, childcare/independent school and more.
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