Published Date: September 2, 2020

Last month, Nicole Anderson-Cobb examined the relationship between the Museum of the Grand Prairie and the African American community through their current civil rights exhibit. She did so as a Pulitzer Center For Crisis Reporting Grantee for the Prairie State Museums Project (an initiative of Resilient Heritage): The Impact of COVID-19 on Illinois Museums.

In her two-part series looking at the different aspects of the exhibit, she questioned the disconnect between hosting the exhibit in a predominately white village of Mahomet and the Black community having access to the collection.