Exhibits
Book one of SpeakOut's award-winning exhibitions that explore history, race, family diversity, sexual orientation gender identity, and culture. Whether presented in person or virtually, each powerful exhibit offers an unforgettable educational experience.
Black History 101 Mobile Museum
Founded by Dr. Khalid el-Hakim, the Black History 101 Mobile Museum is an award winning collection of over 10,000 original artifacts of Black memorabilia dating from the trans-Atlantic slave trade era to hip-hop culture. Dr. el-Hakim has been called the "Schomburg of the Hip-Hop generation" because of his passionate commitment to carry on the rich tradition of the Black Museum Movement. As the nation's premiere Black history traveling exhibit, the Black History 101 Mobile Museum has visited 41 states sharing "ourstory" at over 1000 institutions reaching tens of thousands of visitors in diverse spaces including colleges, K-12 schools, corporations, conferences, libraries, museums, festivals, religious institutions, and cultural events.
Created by Khalid el-Hakim
Educator, Activist, and Founder of the Black History 101 Mobile Museum
Educator, Activist, and Founder of the Black History 101 Mobile Museum
Overcoming Hateful Things: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Imagery
This exhibit explores the Jim Crow system, the African American experience through the Jim Crow era, and the legacies of this system in modern society, while cultivating understanding and empathy.
Created by David Pilgrim
Scholar, Writer, Diversity Educator and Founder of the Jim Crow Museum
Scholar, Writer, Diversity Educator and Founder of the Jim Crow Museum
Family Diversity Exhibits
These award-winning, traveling photo-text exhibits tell the stories of real people and help eliminate prejudice, stereotyping, bullying, and harassment of people who are discriminated against due to sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, race, national origin, religion, and disabilities of all kinds. Bring one or more to your campus, house of worship, workplace, library, museum, corporate headquarters, conference, or community gathering.
Each easy-to-display exhibition includes approximately 20 museum-quality framed photographs (16" x 20") along with accompanying laminated text. Several of the exhibits are also available for virtual screenings. Peggy Gillespie, the Co-Founder and Director of Family Diversity Projects, is also available to speak in conjunction with any exhibition.
Explore the exhibits below.
Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families
Exploring gender identity through spirited, powerful interviews with trans and nonbinary people and their family members.
Building Bridges: Portraits of Immigrants and Refugees
Building Bridges includes photographs and interviews with people who have come to the United States as immigrants, refugees, or asylum-seekers from all over the world. The exhibit seeks to challenge damaging myths and stereotypes about immigrants and refugees as a way to prevent bullying and hatred towards this marginalized group of people.
In Our Family: Portraits of Many Kinds of Families
Families representing a breadth of diversity and family configurations including: adoptive and foster families, divorced and stepfamilies, single parent households, multiracial families, families facing chronic illness, families living with mental and physical disabilities, lesbian and gay-parented families; interfaith families, multigenerational households, and immigrant families.
Love Makes a Family: Portraits of LGBT People and their Families
Photographs and interviews with families that have lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender members. This exhibit seeks to challenge and change damaging myths and stereotypes about LGBTQ people and their families.
Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family
These compelling accounts demonstrate strength, courage, integrity, and accomplishment in the face of adversity and stigma — giving people living with mental illness and their families an opportunity to come out of the shadows and into the public eye.
Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families
In a world where race is considered by many to be a formidable barrier between people, these twenty families have bridged that divide through interracial relationships and/or adoption.
The Road to Freedom: Portraits of People with Disabilities
This powerful exhibit documents the experiences, lives, and families of children, teens, and adults whose lives are affected by the full spectrum of physical, sensory, learning, and mental disabilities.