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African American Museum funds slashed in revised city budget

Elimination of $231,000 in operating support threatens the stability of the museum, the premiere African American cultural institution in the region.

The novelist and essayist James Baldwin (left) talks to James G. Spady at the African American Museum in Philadelphia in March 1986.
The novelist and essayist James Baldwin (left) talks to James G. Spady at the African American Museum in Philadelphia in March 1986.Read moreLeandre Jackson