Every February, we as a nation celebrate Black History. This month, I have been thinking back, fondly, to the time that I spent with Dr. Margaret Burroughs, who along with her husband Charles, founded Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History, one of the first black history institutions in the United States. We made a …
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As I reported last week, I have been very impressed by the apparently instinctive decision on the part of a large number of protestors in Tahrir Square to risk their safety, maybe their lives, to form a human chain around the Egyptian Museum to prevent looters from escaping and to prevent any more looters from …
As a person who loves to visit museums and has made a career out of producing documentary television about museums, I am fascinated by the emerging story of what happened at the renowned Egyptian Museum, just off Tahrir Square, the focal point of the current revolutionary activity in Cairo. The museum is the home of …