Black History
Remembering Legendary Pitcher Satchel Paige
Larry Tye, author of a Satchel Paige biography, will join Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Wil Haygood, Washington Post columnist, in a discussion about the famous pitcher at the Carmichael Auditorium of the National Museum of ...
September 08, 2009 |
By Abby Callard
African American History Museum to Receive Emmett Till's Casket
A glass-topped casket that once held the battered body of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy whose brutal 1955 murder in Mississippi galvanized the civil rights movement was donated last week to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The announcement was made Frid...
September 01, 2009 |
By Abby Callard
Social Satirist Dick Gregory Speaks at Folklife Festival
Comedian and social critic Dick Gregory will take to the stage Thursday, at 6 PM, at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival's Oratorium stage. Gregory will speak with the Smithsonian's Lonnie G. Bunch, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, as part of the festival's pr...
July 01, 2009 |
By Ashley Luthern
Hot Temps, Rhymes at Festival Keep Spoken Word Alive
Poet and hip-hop artist Toni Blackman brought her hot rhymes to an equally hot stage at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. As temperatures climbed into the upper 80s Thursday, Blackman read from her book of poetry, Inner Course: A Plea for Real Love.She also performed several spoken word pieces, a...
June 26, 2009 |
By Ashley Luthern
The Kentucky Derby’s Forgotten Jockeys
African American jockeys once dominated the track. But by 1921, they had disappeared from the Kentucky Derby
April 24, 2009 |
By Lisa K. Winkler
Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 Passed by House of Representatives
"A fundamental principle of American democracy is that individuals should stand up for their rights and beliefs and fight for justice." ~ Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009.Yesterday, the House of Representatives unanimously agreed to fund a 5-year initiative to record oral and video historie...
April 23, 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
Design Announced for National Museum of African American History and Culture
The design concept of Foster + Partners/URS Group, Inc. may have claimed favorite in our readers' poll, but the stately, bronze structure submitted by architects Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup won the hearts of the official jury, charged with making the final decision about what the National Museum...
April 14, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
Designs for National Museum of African American History and Culture
The Smithsonian Institution has revealed the six architectural designs vying to become the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The concepts—from boxy to spiral-shaped (like the inside of a conch shell, really), geometric to organic—certainly run the gamut. And there’s no shorta...
March 30, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
Endangered Site: Centennial Baptist Church
Built by a self-taught black architect, the Arkansas church has hosted leaders in the black community for over a century
March 2009 |
By Marian Smith Holmes
Obama Campaign Office Acquired by NMAAHC
The Falls Church, Virginia, office provides record of a historic victory, now part of the collections
January 29, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
College Students To Debate Obama's Priorities at Inaugural Event
What should President-elect Barack Obama do in his first 100 days of office? Should he push for universal health care? Intervene in the Israel-Gaza conflict? Put forward legislation to create green jobs?These questions will be discussed by some of the nation’s top college debaters at The Inaugural ...
January 14, 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
The Lasting Impact of a Civil Rights Icon's Murder
One of three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi in 1964 was James Chaney. His younger brother would never be the same
December 2008 |
By Hank Klibanoff
Remembering Greensboro
There’s nothing overtly impressive about the section of a luncheonette counter placed behind glass in a corner of the National Museum of American History’s temporary gallery ("Treasures of American History," on display at the Air and Space Museum while the NMAH gets a makeover).The padded vinyl se...
February 11, 2008 |
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Portraits of Resistance
The inaugural show of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
February 2008 |
By Lucinda Moore
Lifting their Voices
Paying tribute to America's first black opera
January 30, 2008 |
By Marian Smith Holmes
Trash Becomes Treasure
Shards of history turned up at the site of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture after a team of archaeologists spent three hot August weeks sifting through dirt as part of a mandated environmental impact study. The recovered artifacts, some pieces of pottery and lamps, ...
August 30, 2007 |
By Beth Py-Lieberman
Black Woodstock
Harlem 1969: Jesse Jackson, Nina Simone, B.B. King and 100,000 spectators gather for a concert worth remembering
February 01, 2007 |
By Richard Morgan
Fabric of Their Lives
There's a new exhibition of works by the quilters of Gee's Bend, Alabama, whose lives have been transformed by worldwide acclaim for their artistry.
October 2006 |
By Amei Wallach
Stars and Strife
A clash of cultures at Boston's City Hall in 1976 symbolized the city's years-long confrontation with the busing of schoolchildren
April 2006 |
By Celia Wren
Preservation or Development at Morris Island?
On this site where the nation's legendary African-American fighting force proved its valor in the Civil War, a housing development ignited a debate over the uses of history
July 2005 |
By Fergus M. Bordewich
