Smithsonian Magazine20d
From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts
In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...
Philadelphia Tribune1mon
Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
Kate McMahon is a Smithsonian Institution museum specialist at the National Museum of African American History & Culture and leads research efforts at the Center for the Study of Global Slavery.
The Washington Post7d
New exhibit shows how African Americans returned from World War I only to a fight a war at home
The diary of African American teenager Jessie Greer ... blouse and long dark skirt stands beside him. They are timeless portraits of men and women and look as if they had once hung in living ...
‘Backbone of the American Dream’: How Rosenwald Schools shaped the civil rights movement
Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation ...
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Marshall to host 'Poets and Portraits'
HUNTINGTON Marshall University’s School of Music will host “Poets and Portraits: An exploration of the African American experience through song” at 5 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church of ...
The Martha's Vineyard Times5d
Exhibit on African American and Wampanoag past
Photographer and writer Austin Bryant delves into the intertwined and elusive nature of history and memory in “Where They ...
NKyTribune5d
Governor, Lt. Governor celebrate Women’s History Month, unveil KY Women Remembered portraits
Gov. Andy Beshear joined Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman and the Kentucky Commission on Women to commemorate Women’s History ...
Seacoastonline.com14d
Seacoast African American Cultural Center leaders want to be 'seen and heard'
PORTSMOUTH — Portraits of Emerson Reed, Geraldine “Jeri” Cousins Palmer, Hazel Sinclair and more of the region’s influential Black forebears hang on walls of the Seacoast African American Cultural ...
The Grio25d
Most influential Black politicians in American history
From the first Black president to the first African American woman ever elected to the United States Congress, Black people have made considerable gains – and helped to change the face of U.S ...