We made our way through the exhibitions that document the state-sanctioned violence black people experienced over the course of generations, pausing to study the images and take in their explanations
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African American Museum To Digitize Vintage Photos, Videos For Black Families | Huffington Post
“We recognize the importance of these vernacular, homemade images, this folk cinema, as an alternate history to the kinds of history that the mass media tells.”
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Smithsonian African American History Museum Gets Own Stamp | The Afro
The United States Postal Service will immortalize the Smithsonian National Museum of African American and Culture on a Forever stamp slated to be issued next week.
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The Woman with the Violin
Ginger Smock and the Los Angeles Jazz Scene
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Two Nooses Discovered at Smithsonian Museums This Week – Hyperallergic
“Today’s incident is a painful reminder of the challenges that African Americans continue to face,” said NMAAHC Founding Director Lonnie Bunch.
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87-Year-Old Woman Sees ‘Slave Cabin’ in Which She Was Born at National African-American Museum – The Root
It was a cabin that housed people who were enslaved starting in 1853 on Edisto Island, S.C.
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The Smithsonian’s African American Museum Tells the Myriad Stories of Black Heroism – Hyperallergic
Being among such a dizzying selection of uplifting stories, you cannot avoid the conclusion that America would not be what it is without all the people represented here.
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‘Allowing America to Confront Its Tortured Racial Past’
[two_fifth padding=”0 35px 0 10px”]‘ALLOWING AMERICA TO CONFRONT ITS TORTURED RACIAL PAST’ BY Clare Foran PUB The Atlantic [/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”][perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]How the National Museum of African American History and Culture recounts black history in the United States[/perfectpullquote]The Smithsonian Institution museums that dot the National Mall in Washington, D.C. […]
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How An Architect Used Striking Design To Capture New Smithsonian’s Meaning
As the Smithsonian prepares to open its National Museum of African American History and Culture in a couple weeks, NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with the museum’s architect, David Adjaye.
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A Thorny Question for African American Museum: Whose Story Do We Tell?
“Our museum is built on individual narratives, but you’re just not going to be able to tell everybody’s story,” curator Nancy Bercaw said.
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