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There are also plenty of places you might not have considered that are celebrating an aspect of African American heritage, including these six:

-- CityPASS grants discounted access to Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture where there is an exhibit dedicated to legendary musician Jimmy Hendrix.

-- Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown in Virginia ae touting “African-American Cultural Heritage Month” with exhibits that explore the experiences of Africans and African Americans in early America, starting with the first known Africans to land in Virginia in 1619 to the role and impact of African Americans on both sides of the fight in the Revolutionary War.

-- New Jersey is touting Underground Railroad sites in southern New Jersey and the opening this June of Cape May's new Harriet Tubman Museum. Tubman was a key figure in the Underground Railroad, helping to shepherd escaped slaves to freedom.

-- In Chicago, meanwhile, the Museum of Science and Industry’s Black Creativity program is honoring contributions of African Americans in science, technology, engineering , art and medicine with a new exhibit -- and the 50th anniversary of the largest running exhibit of African-American art in the country, the Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition.

-- The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City celebrates the history of African-American baseball.

-- Los Angeles City Hall's Bridge Gallery will feature Stand Up: The Art and Politics of Comedy through March 10, a free exhibit, focusing on past and present African-American comedians, club owners, writers and more.

"I have a dream," Dr. King said on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that summer day in 1963. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character..."

Those children are adults now and that day still hasn't come. Let's hope -- especially this month -- that it's not too far off.

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