Peggy McGlone, The Washington Post [dropcap]Lonnie[/dropcap] G. Bunch III — the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture — has been appointed secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, becoming the first African American leader in its 173-year history. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Smithsonian’s Board of Regents introduced Bunch as the institution’s […]
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Sweet Home Cafe | Atlas Obscura
This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.
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How a Wave of Honest History Museums Is Changing Black Tourism | Slate
On a walking tour of the New Orleans Garden District, my husband and I exchanged meaningful glances after the fourth or fifth time our guide delicately referred to the slaves who once worked in those elegant old homes as “servants.” To our ears, the reference was absurdly, offensively inapt, as if those enslaved people had […]
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A Previously Unknown Portrait of a Young Harriet Tubman Goes on View |Smithsonian Mag.com
“I was stunned,” says director Lonnie Bunch; historic Emily Howland photo album contains dozens of other abolitionists and leaders who took an active role
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An Intimate History of America | The Paris Review
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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Slave’s daughter who helped open the African American Museum dies at 100 | The Washington Post
Ruth Odom Bonner was 99 when she grasped the rope of the old Baptist church bell and started it tolling across the Mall last fall before a gathering of thousands.
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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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