Image credit: “The Negro Motorist Green Book” cover, 1940. Courtesy Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, New York Public Library.On November 16, […]
The Houston Symposium in Philosophy of Religion presents a new series of talks about religion. It gathers scholars of all faiths from Houston, and other Texan universities, to share their […]
Texas Liberator Johnnie Marino landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day and fought at the Battle of the Bulge. In April 1945, he entered Hadamar and Bergen-Belsen with Allied troops. Photo […]
The 2023 Jewish Book & Arts Festival presents In the Garden of the Righteous by Richard Hurowitz. In the Garden of the Righteous is a deep dive into the lives […]
Since 9/11, domestic extremists and white nationalists have carried out almost three times more attacks in the U.S. than Islamic extremists according to government data. In the past 50 years, other than […]
Rabbi Joshua R. S. Fixler There are many Jewish legends about the golem – a creature formed from clay and brought to life using mystical knowledge to serve the Jewish […]
Holocaust Museum Houston, in partnership with FotoFest, host a screening the award-winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol by Pulitzer Prize-winning Ukrainian journalist Mstyslav Chernov. This harrowing film follows Chernov and […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston in partnership with HTX Art in the Heart for our third annual Día de los Muertos Community Altar Workshop. Participants at this family-friendly event will explore the meaning and significance of Día De Los Muertos and learn about the altar making process. Attendees will have the opportunity to create crafts in […]
Dr. Lindsay Gary The New Red Book: A Guide to 50 of Houston’s Black Historical and Cultural Sites (2022) by Dr. Lindsay Gary highlights the history of Houston through the perspective of place - 50 cultural organizations and sites created and sustained by African Americans. It documents little-known histories of the Almeda Post Office, the site of […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a screening of the film Zero Gravity followed by a special presentation from the University of Houston’s SACNAS Chapter. Zero Gravity follows a diverse group of middle-school students from San Jose, CA, who compete in a nationwide tournament to code satellites aboard the International Space Station. Seen through the wondrous […]