{"id":467180,"date":"2026-10-15T21:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467180\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T21:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:36:23","slug":"african-american-museum-celebrates-nelson-mandela-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467180\/","title":{"rendered":"African American museum celebrates Nelson Mandela legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS (KDAF) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/aamdallas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">African American Museum of Dallas<\/a> is filled with art, history and culture, including an exhibit celebrating the legacy of Nelson Mandela \u2014 and admission is always free.<\/p>\n<p>The museum recently underwent renovations to upgrade the building, with new floors, conservation labs, archives<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe role of the museum is education, but we are also the cultural epicenter of this city,\u201d said Lisa Brown Ross, President and CEO of the African American Museum. \u201cThis is the future of education. Libraries and museums are the future of education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The newest exhibit on South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela opened in June 2026 with help from the Mandela 12, a group of distinguished Black men in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, watch the full segment above or visit their website <a href=\"https:\/\/aamdallas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (KDAF) \u2014 The African American Museum of Dallas is filled with art, history and culture, including an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-467180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}