Happy New Year!

In the excitement of the Holidays, families, meals and football, some folks may have missed the news we made.  Our hard-working (and long suffering) Content Council released the draft Content Roadmap.  This roadmap is a vision for the themes and stories that should be experienced in the Center as well as the ideas and emotions visitors should leave with following their visits.  You can find the report HERE

A couple of important points from the discussions within the Content Council-

1) The Center will be more than a building with exhibits.  Visitors will experience the Center in many ways both physical and virtual.  The themes and stories outlined will be communicated through visual exhibits, interactive exhibits, online offerings, films, speeches, plays and many types of programs.  The content covers all these areas.

2) Stories and topics will rotate often within the Center.   In order to remain relevant and engaging, the content must be changed and refreshed often.  From rotating the King Papers on display (it might be King's early years, then King on War, then another topic) to choosing timely current issues to discuss (for instance- we might mount an exhibit on the fight for freedom in Myanmar)- the Center will be a place that looks and feels different every few months.

3) There is a lot of discussion of Human Rights in the roadmap.  This is simply the broadest term that can be used for our content.  In 1955- Dr. King talked about the Montgomery Bus Boycott as a human rights movement-- that language was always present in the African American movements.   African Americans struggled for all types of freedoms and rights, economic, political and cultural among them.  We want to make sure and pay homage to the expansive reach of the movement and thus "human rights" is often used.

Please feel free to provide comments to more @cchrpartnership.org and call the office--

DS