America’s Black Holocaust Museum officially reopens
Photo by Yvonne Kemp
On Friday, February 25, 2022, America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) officially reopened its doors with a ribbon cutting celebration at its new home in the The Griot, 401 W. North Ave. America’s Black Holocaust Museum is reemerging in Milwaukee’s historic Bronzeville neighborhood more than a decade after it was forced to close. In 2008, two years after the death of its founder, Dr. James Cameron, and the onset of the recession, the museum lost funding and subsequently its housing on 4th St. and North Ave. A foundation was created in 2012 to continue his legacy and vision. In 2012, the foundation re-opened ABHM as a 3,200+ page virtual museum available on their website. In 2016, the Foundation announced plans to move the physical museum to a new location at the site of its original, with a planned 2019 re-opening put on hold by the COVID-19 pandemic. Following an anonymous $10M donation in late 2021, the museum re-opened in February 2022. Pictured at the ribbon cutting are ABHM Executive Consultant Brad Pruitt; Dr. James Cameron Legacy Foundation Board Secretary and Dr. Cameron’s son Virgil Cameron; Maures Development Group President and Founder Melissa N. Goins; ABHM President and CEO Dr. Robert “Bert” M. Davis; and Dr. James Cameron Legacy Foundation Board Photo by Yvonne Kemp President Dr. Ralph Hollman.
