Open Eyes Travel

NYC – Black History Highlights on Broadway, part 2

Above: the legendary Pearl Bailey.  Below:  A drawing by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld featuring Nell Carter and Andre De Shields in a Broadway revival of "Ain't Misbehavin' " Below: The Wiz with Stephanie Mills Coming up next: The American Wing of the Metropolitan...

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New Bedford Food Tour

Joined 3 hour New Bedford Food Tour ( www.nbfoodtours.com ) and along with delicious samplings from 5 different restaurant stops, also found some great street art and lots of learning options for a future visit. Cachupa Rafugado at Izzy's Cape Verdean Restaurant was a...

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If in your travels you experience a place or event you think would interest other racial justice advocates, send a photo with a brief explanation and perhaps we'll post it on the website's "Open Eyes Travel".  The email address is [email protected].

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Some Favorites that Didn’t Fit in Earlier Posts

From the National Civil Rights Museum of Memphis School's Out by Allan Rohan Crite in the Smithsonian American Museum of Art.  Crite thought of himself as an artist-reporter whose assignment was to capture the daily lives of ordinary people. Memphis wall mural...

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Music of Memphis

"Beale Street, just south of the main commercial and political thoroughfares of white Memphis, was at the heart of African American life and culture in the city.  Beale was home to businesses that catered to black Memphians and served as a haven from the often hostile...

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Why Dr. MLK Jr. Went to Memphis

In February, 1968, 1300 Black sanitation workers of the city went on strike to protest dangerous working conditions (two workers had been crushed by a faulty collection truck) and calling for an end to racial discrimination.   Their rallying slogan, "I Am a Man" spoke...

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Memphis

The Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated is now the National Civil Rights Museum.  The first exhibit room is titled "A Culture of Resistance" and begins with this: "Slavery in America lasted nearly 250 years and held captive at least 12...

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