Pullman Porter Museum Announces Black Renaissance Movement

The National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum is on a mission to change the narrative of consistent negative messaging about Black Communities that is colored by the actions of a few. There are thousands of untold positive messages out there. The National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum is working to push positive messages out and begin to restore hope in our communities.  Currently in The Manifestation Phase, (“Installment Number 4”), National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum is sounding the alarm to act and reclaim control of our history, heritage, and culture.

During the day’s event, The National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum publicly states, “We are stepping out and taking the lead with resources that we are assembling…to initiate this action within the African American Community by utilizing the things we have control over…OUR CULTURE!   We are working to create a strong sound economic base in the Black community using as our vehicle, Cultural Economic Development by implementing the Community Economic Development Empowerment Project (CEDEP) 2020 plan.

Noting the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum is a nonprofit and has certain limitations that prevents access to most of the required resources to address many of the root causes in the Black community, the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum created a Social Enterprise collaborative partnership with Randolph’s Dream CDC, a Community Development Corporation. Together they created CEDEP 2020. It is a template that can be used in other communities to help rebuild communities across this city. The museum is starting their Plan on the North end of the Pullman National Monument historic district designated by President Barack Obama in 2015.

The essence of which is the harnessing of black history heritage and culture and using it as an organizing tool to rebuild our communities. This focused effort will place Culture at the very core of every action. It is called Cultural Economic Development (CED).  This is something that the founder, Dr. Lyn Hughes, has talked about for 20 plus years, and the proof of concept is the creation of the first Black labor history museum in the nation…The National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum.

The museum modeled that concept by studying the path created by members of the first black union chartered under the American Federation of labor. They were working men who worked on the trains to provide for their families but were also entrepreneurs.  In that process, they became purveyors of Cultural Economic Development. They opened businesses and were productive active members of their communities.

A key point is they understood that our History, Heritage and Culture was the glue to hold the African American community together.  Music and the Arts have always been a part of our communities. Today everyone else but us has recognized the importance of our culture and has monetized it.  The African American Community is the only entity that does not benefit from it.

The Urban Renaissance is a sounding of the alarm, a wake up call and call to action.

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