Great Blacks News Today

The promotion runs from January 2 to 12, but each attraction sets its dates.

The $2 million grant to Baltimore's Great Blacks in Wax Museum will allow the 40-year-old cultural institution to nearly double in size by 2026.

With federal spending and the debt limit shaping up to be the pivotal political fights of the next two years, federal handouts for tourist-trap museums could be an unexpectedly telling battleground. On February 28, the House Appropriations Committee released guidelines for earmarked spending requests in the upcoming FY 2024 spending bills.

Great Blacks in Wax Museum's ambitious makeover could help jump start development along E. North Avenue

Just in the nick of time, the Senate, including 18 Republicans, passed the pork-laden $1.7 trillion omnibus bill before government funding ran out – and you will not believe what it contains. [...]

Congress is trying to cram through a mammoth $1.7 trillion government funding bill ahead of a noreaster that could otherwise leave lawmakers snowed-in in Washington, D.C. over Christmas.

Expect to see plenty of pink and green ensembles adorned with pearls this week in Baltimore as thousands of members of the nation’s oldest Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., attend their 91st North Atlantic regional conference.

The traditionally two day promotion has been upgraded to two weeks!

Great Blacks in Wax puts a spin on Black history By: Bo Evans and last updated 2021-02-10 21:09:42-05 BALTIMORE — Joanne Martin starts at the beginning. “I had a young man from somewhere in Africa and he said that all his life, they had talked about those who were lost, about the people who had been stolen,” said Martin. From the outside, the National Great Blacks in Wax museum looks unassuming, just a building in Baltimore. But your first steps inside take you to...