Experience an evening of enlightenment and inspiration as historian and renowned art collector Bernard Kinsey takes you on a journey of discovery through many untold stories of African American history, accomplishments and contributions. Listen as Kinsey debunks the "myth of absence" in American history. Drawing from the extensive collection of artistic and historical treasures amassed in The Kinsey Collection, he reveals long-ignored stories of the roles that African Americans played in the making of America.

African American Treasures from The Kinsey Collection is currently on view at the Houston Museum of African American Culture through Oct. 26.