There is only one museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to honoring the ordinary extraordinary lives of women of color. It is on Germantown Avenue. It is in a rowhouse. And it is one of the most quietly radical spaces in Philadelphia.
Founded by Vashti DuBois — daughter of the poet Sonia Sanchez — the Colored Girls Museum does not exhibit famous women. It exhibits the unnamed, the overlooked, and the essential. The women whose labor built families, whose love built communities, and whose stories were never deemed worth preserving until this museum decided they were.
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