Explore your family’s culinary history with Boniuk Library Book Club. On November 7, Boniuk Library book club is coming together for a book discussion and recipe swap, in honor of this month’s book “The Cooking Gene,” by Michael Twitty. In this illuminating memoir, culinary historian Michael Twitty traces his family history through the recipes and […]
Holocaust Museum Houston, together with Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance and DACAMERA, presents The Music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a free performance by pianist and DACAMERA Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg with DACAMERA Young Artists. The performance will be preceded by a panel discussion, Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Music as Memory, featuring Rothenberg in discussion with Houston […]
ADL Walk Against Hate events have successfully united communities in Philadelphia, Las Vegas and San Diego since 2010. On Sunday, November 17th, 2019, Houston will celebrate our inaugural Walk Against Hate and bring the entire community together to promote diversity and celebrate the values of respect and inclusion. WHY WE WALK: We Defend Civil Rights. […]
Dolores Huerta leads supporters of the United Farm Workers (UFW) in an unidentified march, early 1970s.Unidentified photographer. Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Holocaust Museum Houston's young professionals group, NEXTGen, invites you to an exclusive tour of the newly expanded Holocaust Museum Houston. The tour will […]
“For Sama” is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter as well as a filmmaker's self-portrait, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets […]
Holocaust Museum Houston's Latino Initiatives Advisory Committee and young professionals group, NEXTGen, invite you to a private film screening of Dolores. One of the most important, yet least known activists of our time, Dolores Huerta was an equal partner in founding the first farm workers union with César Chávez. Tirelessly leading the fight for racial […]
Join Boniuk Library Book Club for a special meeting in honor of Universal Human Rights month. This month we will be discussing MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Valeria Luiselli’s book: “Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In Forty Questions.” This short, impactful collection is the result of the author’s work as a volunteer interpreter for […]
Join us for a conversation with Dolores Huerta about her life and work as a revolutionary and inspirational leader dedicated to social justice and the future of America. Dolores Huerta was the cofounder of the United Farm Workers Association and is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century, as well as […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston and the Rothko Chapel for an early celebration of International Human Rights Day. Human Rights Day is observed every year on the December 10th, which is the anniversary of the day that the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The evening will begin with […]
Join Dancing with the Stars' Dmitry Chaplin and his grandmother, Vera Levitskaya, as she tells her story. She was the only one to survive the Holocaust in the town of Khashevatoe in Ukraine.