Hannah Knowles, The Washington Post Law enforcement officials including Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul, at lectern, announce the arrest of Ronn Jermaine Bell on Tuesday. (Travis Spradling/The Advocate/AP). Featured Image [dropcap]A[/dropcap] man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Sadie Roberts-Joseph, the Baton Rouge activist whose body was found in a […]
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Smithsonian’s new secretary, Lonnie Bunch III, faces political and financial challenges | The Washington Post
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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The Black Power Movement Gets a Permanent Display at the Oakland Museum | Hyperallergic
The museum has opened a permanent exhibition about Black activism in the Bay Area, which, contrary to public perception, was not always an accepting, progressive place.
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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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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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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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Little-known ‘Colored Girls Museum’ open in Germantown – Chestnut Hill Local
The Colored Girls Museum, 4613 Newhall St. in Germantown, helps to redress the frequent disregard of black women’s lives and labor.
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For the First Time, Metropolitan Museum Will Display Indigenous Art in Its American Wing – Hyperallergic
With a major promised gift of 91 works of Native American art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will now include indigenous art in its galleries on American art.
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Billionaire to boost Charleston’s African American Museum – The Post & Courier
Charleston’s International African American Museum is getting a big boost that just might push it over the finish line.
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‘Dimensions’ at MCASD downtown presents a wide range of viewpoints – The San Diego Union-Tribune
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s exhibit “Dimensions of Black” presents a wide array of art forms and subjects from the 1970s to modern times. What ties the more than 30 pieces together is that they are all created by African-American artists.
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