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Wright Museum to host panel discussion for Detroit Hip Hop 50th anniversary weekend

Industry veterans including Metro Times' Kahn Santori Davidson will debate the top 50 contributors to the Detroit hip-hop scene

By Randiah Camille Green
Jun 5, 2023

Tags: Things to Do, Music, Things to Do, Detroit Hip Hop 50th anniversary weekend, Charles H. Wright Museum, things to do
Culture

Mama Sol, Lizz Wright, and The Legendary Wailers to headline Detroit’s African World Festival

Seun Kuti, We Are Scorpio featuring jessica Care moore, and Ahya Simone will also perform

By Randiah Camille Green
Jun 22, 2022

Tags: Culture, Arts & Culture, African World Festival, Arts & Culture, Thornetta Davis, jessica Care moore, Charles H. Wright Museum, Mama Sol
Things to Do

Detroit Opera tells the story of Detroit Red with its performance of ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’

The opera shares the different phases of Malcolm X's life

By Alex Washington
May 9, 2022

Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Malcolm X, Detroit Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera, Detroit, Charles H. Wright Museum, Malcolm X Day
Arts

Detroit poet jessica Care moore lands major book deal

By Imani Mixon
Mar 11, 2020

Tags: Books, jessica Care moore, Charles H. Wright Museum, We Want Our Bodies Back
Arts

Controversial 'Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello' exhibit will wrap in Detroit with lecture from historian Annette Gordon-Reed

By Maryam Jayyousi
Jun 14, 2019

Tags: The Scene, Thomas Jefferson, Charles H. Wright Museum, Sally Hemings
Arts

Aretha Franklin concert film 'Amazing Grace' to premiere at Detroit Institute of Arts

By Devin Culham
Mar 25, 2019

Tags: The Scene, Aretha Franklin, Amazing Grace, Detroit Institute of Arts, Charles H. Wright Museum
Metro Detroit

‘Messy and painful’ exhibit on Thomas Jefferson’s slave plantation elicits community backlash in Detroit

By Will Feuer
Jan 21, 2019

Tags: News Hits, Charles H. Wright Museum, Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Jefferson, Black Legacy Coalition
Music News

Detroit's Wright Museum to host free Jimi Hendrix tribute concert

Staff Pick

By Jerilyn Jordan
Nov 21, 2018

Tags: City Slang, Jimi Hendrix, Charles H. Wright Museum, Video
Arts

The Wright Museum will celebrate fashion with eighth annual gala

By Jerilyn Jordan
Oct 4, 2018

Tags: The Scene, The Wright, Charles H. Wright Museum, Oh you fancy, Aretha
Arts

Aretha Franklin 'Think' exhibit opens at the Wright Museum

By Lucas Maiman
Sep 25, 2018

Tags: The Scene, Aretha Franklin, Charles H. Wright Museum, Think
Arts

Tomorrow: A White Panther Party reunion at the Wright Museum

By Michael Jackman
Jul 14, 2017

Tags: The Scene, White Panther Party, 1960s reunions, Charles H. Wright Museum, Peter Werbe, John Sinclair, Pun Plamondon, Leni Sinclair
Arts

Wright Museum to restore John Thomas Biggers' social realist painting

By Alysa Zavala-Offman
Dec 14, 2016

Tags: The Scene, art, charles h. wright museum, john thomas biggers, social realism
Music News

Learn how to copyright your own music today at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

By Alysa Zavala-Offman
Apr 23, 2015

Tags: City Slang, Detroit music, charles h. wright museum, trademark, copyright, seminar