Utah Black History Museum

06/23/2026

Thank you to those who donated today and on Juneteenth! 🙌🏾🎉

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06/21/2026

Thank you to everyone involved with the Juneteenth Festival in Ogden, Utah!

Thank you for capturing our lovely exhibit!
📽️ The Ogdenite

We are the first, Utah Black History Museum. We have a mobile exhibit. We bring the history TO YOU!
All gas, no brakes! (The bus, Marge, has air brakes though 😉)

Donate today to support the Museum's goals; preserving history, a brick and mortar, standard maintenance and expanding the exhibits (We have SO much we cannot wait to show you!)📚🚍

Invite us to your gathering, your business, your school, or community event by submitting a request on our website www.uBhm.org 🚍📚

See you next time!

06/20/2026

It's such a blessing to be here, in Ogden, with the people!
Come enjoy Ogden's Juneteenth celebrations!

Amazing food, performances, local businesses, and the first, the Utah Black History Museum 🚍📚🎉

Happy Juneteenth! 🎉

📍 Ogden Amphitheatre

05/25/2026

Memorial Day is a chance for us to pause as a community and recognize the extraordinary individuals whose bravery and commitment shaped the freedoms and rights we treasure today.

Honoring them is about choosing, every day, to stand up for the same values they believed were worth the ultimate sacrifice: fairness, justice, and dignity for all.

05/25/2026

Before Memorial Day was recognized across America, freed Black Americans in Charleston, South Carolina gathered in 1865 to honor 257 Union soldiers who gave their lives fighting for freedom and the preservation of our nation. Black troops marched, families laid flowers, and a grieving but hopeful community came together to ensure these men would never be forgotten. This Memorial Day, we honor this history and all the brave soldiers whose sacrifices helped shape the freedoms we cherish today.

05/25/2026

Memorial Day was started by formerly enslaved people on May, 1, 1865 in Charleston, SC. It was a way to honor the 257 dead Union Soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp. They dug up the bodies and worked for 2 weeks to give them a proper burial as gratitude for fighting for their freedom. They then held a parade of 10,000 people led by 2,800 Black children where they marched, sang and celebrated.

05/25/2026

🌸🦅Happy Decoration Day —
the origin of Memorial Day💐🌸

Before it was a national holiday, it was an act of respect, honor, and freedom.

On May 1, 1865, over 10,000 people — mostly freed Gullah people and Black people of Charleston, SC — gathered at the Washington Race Course to honor fallen Union soldiers who died fighting for freedom.
They reburied them with dignity, built a fence, and called them 💐Martyrs of the Race Course.
They sang, marched, and gave thanks.

That was the first Decoration Day. A tradition born from the hearts of people who knew the cost of freedom better than anyone.

Today we celebrate that legacy. Decorate a grave. Honor a veteran. Volunteer at the VA. Remember the sacrifice.

Thank you to every soldier and veteran who fought to secure freedom and protect the rights of all people in this country. 🦅💐

We honor you and your sacrifice. Give veterans their flowers. 💐

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Utah Black History Museum 🚌💨
🔗 www.uBhm.org

03/03/2026

in 1913, more than 5,000 women marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C. to demand the right to vote, marking the first suffrage parade and the first large, organized march on Washington for political purposes. The 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession through Washington, D.C. changed the way protests were viewed and carried out by the American public, and laid the foundation for future marches.

The Procession, unprecedented in both its scale and its tactics, was a major turning point for the woman suffrage movement in the United States. Suffrage leader Alice Paul, who was recently elected head of the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s Congressional Committee, devised the idea for a large-scale public demonstration. Paul, who had spent time in England, witnessed the more militant tactics that the British suffragists used to draw attention to their cause.

Parade organizers strategically selected March 3, 1913 for the march. Woodrow Wilson was to be inaugurated as the new President the following day, and national press was in town and idly awaiting the inaugural festivities.

Paul insisted that the parade march down Pennsylvania Avenue, deliberately following the same route that the inaugural parade would take the next day. The contrast between the two parades would prove striking. Reporters flocked to the suffrage parade, leaving Wilson to arrive at the train station unheralded.

Despite the chaos and violence that initially ensued during the parade, Paul declared the event a success. The parade made national headlines and once again captured the public’s interest in the suffrage movement. Even those who opposed votes for women acknowledged that, as citizens, the women had the right to peacefully assemble.

03/03/2026

The estate of Henrietta Lacks has reached a settlement with Novartis over claims the company benefited from the unauthorized use of her cells in medical research for decades following her death.

The terms of the settlement remain confidential, but the agreement brings an end to the legal dispute between Novartis and the estate of Henrietta Lacks, Fierce Pharma reported.

The victory comes two years after a federal lawsuit was filed in Baltimore in August 2024 against Novartis and Viatris, where the family sought a jury trial, and the full profits they alleged were earned through the companies’ use of Lacks’ cells without consent.

https://www.blackenterprise.com/henrietta-lacks-estate-wins-settlement-against-novartis/

03/03/2026