The award-winning exhibit, Proclaiming Colorado’s Black History, is going on the road, featuring unique adaptations for each host location! Continue to learn about Colorado’s rich and complex Black history with new stories, people, and places to discover around the state.
A comprehensive, but not complete, look at the African American experience in Colorado.
The goal of this project has been working collaboratively to preserve Colorado’s rich and complex Black histories, sharing them broadly, and integrating them into Colorado education.
Pueblo, CO: El Pueblo History Museum
January 19 – June 19, 2026
Rocky Mountain PBS – El Pueblo History Museum Debuts New Black History Exhibit (and related Instagram video)
KRCC – ‘Proclaiming Colorado’s Black History’ exhibit opens MLK Day at El Pueblo History Museum
Adrian Miller – exhibit walk-through video, opening event highlights
Aurora, CO: Aurora History Museum
July 14 – November 8, 2026
CPR News – Aurora History Museum Seeking Community Ideas for Upcoming Exhibit on the City’s Black History
The Sentinel – Aurora History Museum opens exhibit showcasing Black history across Colorado
City of Aurora – Proclaiming Colorado’s Black History: Aurora’ exhibit opens at the Aurora History Museum today, July 14
CPR News – Aurora History Museum debuts exhibit featuring Black people with Aurora connections
Denver, CO: Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library
August – December 2026
Lakewood, CO: Heritage Lakewood Belmar Park
January 19, 2027 – June 19, 2027
Golden, CO: Golden History Museum & Park
2028
Click below for free downloads of Proclaiming Colorado’s Black History curriculum for:
Second Grade
Fourth Grade
Eighth Grade
High School
Thank you to the University of Colorado Boulder, Celebrating CU Boulder’s 150th Anniversary for supporting this effort.
![Meet our Project Team: Adrian Miller: Co-Project Director and Lead Curator Award-winning researcher, "The Soul Food Scholar” Author, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time, The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, From the Washingtons to the Obamas, and Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue. Lori Preston: Co-Project Director Executive Director, Museum of Boulder Aubrie Reed: Instructional Designer Instructional Designer for Proclaiming Colorado’s Black History, Museum of Boulder Katrina Miller: Audiovisual Media Producer Founder, Blackat Video Productions Director, This Is [NOT] Who We Are, The Silence of Quarantine Minister Glenda Strong Robinson: Oral History Liaison NAACP Boulder County Historian and Executive Committee Member; Associate Minister and Historian, Second Baptist Church; Lifelong Civil Rights Activist Emily Zinn: Project Manager and Lead Grant Writer Director of Education, Museum of Boulder Carol Banks: Creative Director Carol Banks Design, LLC Carolyn McHale: Senior Designer Bold Face Design Cyns Nelson: Oral History Archivist Manager, Maria Rogers Oral History Program at Boulder Public Library’s Carnegie Library for Local History Laureen Trainer: Project Evaluator Founder, Trainer Evaluation Nyasha James-Davis: Programs Creative Director of Programs, Museum of Boulder Jeffrey Neering: Oral History and Archival Research Master of Divinity Adderly Grant-Lord: Afrofuturist Gallery Curator Abstract artist, curator, organizer Elizabeth Nosek: Object display, acquisition, and preservation Curator of Collections and Exhibits, Museum of Boulder Leah Brenner Clack: Fall Mural Series Director Executive Director, Street Wise Arts Allyson Burbeck: Fall Mural Series Communications and Program Manager Communication & Program Manager, Street Wise Arts Meet our Advisory Council: Adam Bradley - Founding Director of the Laboratory for Race and Popular Culture (the RAP Lab) at UCLA and CU; former Board of Directors member for the Museum Yvette Bowden - Assistant County Administrator, Boulder County Ray Brown - Pueblo MLK Day Commission, Buffalo Soldier reenactor Tatiana Hernandez - CEO, Community Foundation of Boulder, Colorado Kathryn Hill - Past Executive Director, Museum of the New South Wanda James - CU Regent, and CEO, Simply Pure Dispensary Nikhil Mankekar - Award-Winning Civil and Human Rights Leader Wendell Pryor - Semi retired government official which included Director of the Colorado Civil Rights Division, human resources executive, educator, and social entrepreneur](https://museumofboulder.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Thank-You-Panel-2-scaled.jpg)