The Palm Beach County commission has doubled down on preserving and celebrating African American history with new funding toward an $80 million Black museum development in West Palm Beach.
The county approved a $1 million grant on Dec. 8 to support the African American Museum and Research Library (AAMRL) project.
The 20,000-square-foot, two-story museum will be built on the grounds of the historic Roosevelt High School in West Palm Beach — which was once the city’s segregated Black high school and a cornerstone of Black education in the county…