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  • A Conversation with Cole Brown, Author of “Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World”

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    Cole Brown The Dismantling Bias: Antisemitism, White Supremacy, and Inequality Virtual Lecture Series explores the origins of racist ideologies and the construction of bias; examines the evolution and repercussions of antisemitism and white supremacy throughout history; and deconstructs the ways in which stereotypes, misconceptions, and prejudices shape contemporary society and culture. Led by renowned historians, […]

  • Virtual Film Screening: “Los Médicos de la Montaña”

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    Filmmaker Anais Taracena Join Holocaust Museum Houston in celebration of Indigenous Heritage Month as we feature artists, scholars, and films that pay tribute to Indigenous Peoples' ancestry and traditions worldwide. Film Synopsis:During the war in Guatemala, the people who took refuge in the mountain created a health system as a way of survival in which […]

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    NEXTGen’s Virtual Brunch with Holocaust Survivor Bill Orlin

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    Join Holocaust Museum Houston's young professionals group, NEXTGen, for a Virtual Brunch with Holocaust Survivor Bill Orlin. Between 1939 and 1945, Bill and his family lived on the run. Bill, the eldest son of Sender and Sonia Orlinski, was seven years old when German troops invaded Poland and occupied his hometown of Brok. The Jewish […]

  • Reading the Diary of Anne Frank on Robben Island with Dr. Roni Mikel Arieli

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    The Indian South African anti-apartheid activist and youth leader, Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada, was sentenced to life in prison during the Rivonia trial (July 1963). Over the period of his 26-year imprisonment on Robben Island and in the Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, Kathrada kept seven secret notebooks in which he recorded quotations that he admired from […]

  • Reading the Diary of Anne Frank on Robben Island with Dr. Roni Mikel Arieli

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    The Indian South African anti-apartheid activist and youth leader, Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada, was sentenced to life in prison during the Rivonia trial (July 1963). Over the period of his 26-year imprisonment on Robben Island and in the Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, Kathrada kept seven secret notebooks in which he recorded quotations that he admired from […]

  • In Conversation with David Marwell, author of “Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death”

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    As chief of investigative research at the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations in the 1980s, David G. Marwell worked on the Mengele case, interviewing his victims, visiting the scenes of his crimes, and ultimately holding his bones in his hand. Marwell examines in scrupulous detail Mengele’s life and career. He chronicles Mengele’s university studies, […]

  • Today’s Antisemitism & Its Relationship to Holocaust Denial and Distortion with Dr. Robert Williams

    Dr. Robert Williams The Dismantling Bias: Antisemitism, White Supremacy, and Inequality Virtual Lecture Series explores the origins of racist ideologies and the construction of bias; examines the evolution and repercussions of antisemitism and white supremacy throughout history; and deconstructs the ways in which stereotypes, misconceptions, and prejudices shape contemporary society and culture. Led by renowned […]

  • Nelson Mandela, the Civil Rights and Anti-Apartheid Movements, and Human Rights

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    Click the play button to watch the recorded program. Moderator: John Guess Jr., Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, Houston Museum of African American Culture Participants: County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, Eileen and Kase Lawal and Dr. Cassius Lubisi. Before serving as a County Commissioner, Rodney Ellis was elected to Houston City Council and served three terms before […]

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    The BLM Movement and the Power of Protest with Dr. Allyson Hobbs

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    The Dismantling Bias: Antisemitism, White Supremacy, and Inequality Virtual Lecture Series explores the origins of racist ideologies and the construction of bias; examines the evolution and repercussions of antisemitism and white supremacy throughout history; and deconstructs the ways in which stereotypes, misconceptions, and prejudices shape contemporary society and culture. Led by renowned historians, authors, and activists, the Dismantling […]

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    NEXTGen’s Virtual Book Discussion of “How to be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi

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    “Being an antiracist requires persistent self-awareness, constant self-criticism, and regular self-examination.” - Ibram X. Kendi Holocaust Museum Houston’s young professionals’ group, NEXTGen, invites you to a Virtual Book Discussion of How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. A digital copy of How to be an Antiracist is available for free in the Museum’s […]