Media Coverage

American Journal of Transportation: Greystar and Frampton Construction underway on two-million-square-foot industrial park

Posted By: Melissa Pluta Parker | July 4, 2023

rampton Construction Company, LLC, a full-service construction firm providing planning and design support, preconstruction, and construction services, has broken ground on the first phase of Mid85 industrial park in Spartanburg, S.C. Phase one consists of two speculative warehouse facilities totaling 1,195,342 square feet. The park, which will total over two million square feet upon completion …

iHeart: Journeys

Posted By: Melissa Pluta Parker | July 1, 2023

Guest host Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati speaks to Murphy, Coordinator of Genealogy Education at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. https://iaamuseum.org/. Listen here  

Pride: Honoring our past – looking towards the future

Posted By: Melissa Pluta Parker | July 1, 2023

by Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn (S.C.-06) In 2019, my daughter Jennifer and I took part in a Congressional Delegation to Ghana that included my good friend, the late Congressman John Lewis. Our visit was to commemorate the 400 years since Blacks were forcibly taken from the continent of Africa and enslaved in America. …

AP News: At International African American Museum opening, a reclaiming of sacred ground for enslaved kin

Posted By: Melissa Pluta Parker | June 28, 2023

  By Aaron Morrison CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — When the International African American Museum opens to the public Tuesday in South Carolina, it becomes a new site of homecoming and pilgrimage for descendants of enslaved Africans whose arrival in the Western Hemisphere begins on the docks of the lowcountry coast. Overlooking the old wharf in …

Charleston Regional Business Journal: Exhibits define ‘one of the most important museums in the world’ in Charleston

Posted By: Melissa Pluta Parker | June 28, 2023

For the past year, Malika N. Pryor has had to work on answering a question that not many people deal with in their lifetimes: how do you convey a story that is historically and emotionally complex to as many different people as possible, in a way that they will understand and embrace? That has been …

Charleston Regional Business Journal: ‘TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH’: IAAM opens in Charleston

Posted By: Melissa Pluta Parker | June 28, 2023

By Jenny Peterson Inside the International African American Museum, a robust staff of 60 people make up learning and engagement teams and engagement for faith-based community teams. There’s also the Center for Family History, a family genealogy center, which will help visitors trace their ancestry in a library-like setting. (Photo/Jenny Peterson) A triumphant celebration and …

Post and Courier: Charleston’s IAAM meets the public for the first time

Posted By: Melissa Pluta Parker | June 28, 2023

By Megan Fernandes mfernandes@postandcourier.com The International African American Museum made a grand public entrance June 27, selling out tickets in advance for its first week-and-a-half while making an impression on its inaugural group of patrons. When the doors opened to the public for the first time at 10 a.m., the line stretched from the entrance staircase to …

WCBD News 2: IAAM visitors moved by experience on opening day

Posted By: Melissa Pluta Parker | June 28, 2023

By Jordan Cioppa CHARLESTON, S.C (WCBD) – Twenty-three years of waiting came to an end on Tuesday when the International African American Museum opened its doors to the public for the first time. Overcome with emotion and gratitude, Barbara Oree stood in front on the IAAM on the grand opening to take it all in. …

Observatorial: Museum in Charleston honors the legacy of the descendants of slaves

Posted By: Melissa Pluta Parker | June 28, 2023

Tonya Matthews, president and director of the International African American Museum, said the only thing you need to bring to this museum is curiosity, we will do the rest.Ap’s photo Charleston. The African American International Museum, which opens to the public today in South Carolina, will allow visitors to delve into the origins and pilgrimage …

KFF Health News: New Charleston Museum Nods to Historical Roots of US Health Disparities

Posted By: Melissa Pluta Parker | June 28, 2023

By Lauren SausserJUNE 27, 2023 REPUBLISH THIS STORY The new International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, features nine galleries and multiple exhibits that span several centuries of Black history. (LAUREN SAUSSER / KFF HEALTH NEWS) CHARLESTON, S.C. — Maude Callen, a Black nurse-midwife, delivered more than 800 infants across the South Carolina Lowcountry starting in …