The Black lives in Alaska exhibit opened at the Anchorage Museum in April 2021 and will be closing this month, but during its time at the museum it recalled triumphs as well as struggles of Alaska’s Black community.
Eleanor Andrews is longtime leader and activist within the Black community. As a Black woman who has lived in Alaska since 1965, she’s been building connections in Alaska for nearly five decades. She is featured in the museum in a collaborative video, and has items upon a wall upstairs in the atrium that represent memories from her life, culture, and beliefs.
One of the goals of the exhibit was to showcase the richness and resilience of Alaska’s Black communities, but in many cases, marginalized groups have been written out of history books, causing less visibility for these communities, according to Archivist Julie Varee at the Anchorage Museum, There’s now a call for action to Alaskans who have collections of photos to share them with the museum so that they can have a more comprehensive history.
“The fact that it goes until present day, so there are photographs from the Black Lives Matter protests that are included. It just shows the longevity of the presence and contributions of Black people in Alaska...We always talk about Anchorage being this incredibly diverse place, and we talk about the diversity in the school district, but we don’t often see highlighted the, the richness of the communities that are here,” Varee said.
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