One Tank Trips: This museum is bringing Black history to life

All right, in tonight's One Tank Trips, we are celebrating Black History Month with a trip to a museum that tells the story of the people who changed the lives of millions. The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum was founded in 1983 by Dr. Elmer Martin and his wife, Dr. Joanne Martin. The couple wanted to put a face on the past and help history come to life. The museum is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and Action News photojournalist Dave Edwards takes us there tonight. We're at the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, America's first black history wax museum, right in the heart of Baltimore, Maryland. Carter G. Woodson, he is the father of black history, and it's a wax museum that tells African-American history unapologetically, uncompromisingly. The man being put into a stove, people are going to walk up to that scene. They would see him doing something negative. They'd get to Harriet Tubman and put it all together and see that he's doing something positive. Again, two people coming together of different races, all of them working to make the world better. The idea of having Booker T. Washington step out from that book, the book that defined what he wanted for people. So, Haile Selassie's name was Ross, meaning king or prince, Tafari, Ross Tafari. Bob Marley identified as a Ross Tafarian the name coming from Ross Tafari, who was Haile Selassie. This is the slave ship. There are the sounds that surround you. You hear the crowding. Almost a mantra of the slave ship was the words, remember, you're being told to remember. You are not an observer, but a participant. An exhibit of the ancient Africa room, we have the entrepreneur scene, and we have footsteps of the ancestors. These are the footsteps in which Barack Obama walked. They made the foundation for him. People need to be able to tell their stories, not have their stories erased, because erasing the story is also erasing the people. Putting a face on black history is what this museum does, and that for me is the why. Why the museum? Once again, that was Action News photojournalist Dave Edwards reporting. Thanks, Dave. Yeah, that museum's just in Baltimore.