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Sneak Peak: Smithsonian Curators Preview New African American Museum

Sneak Peak: Smithsonian Curators Preview New African American Museum

  A CENTURY IN THE MAKING, when the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) opens on Sept. 24, a major section of the fourth floor will be devoted to visual art. Exhibitions throughout the rest of the museum will examine in depth the experiences of African Americans, stories central to the...
61 Photos of Sea Island Slave Descendants Donated to Smithsonian

61 Photos of Sea Island Slave Descendants Donated to Smithsonian

  BANK OF AMERICA dontated 61 photos of a small community of slave descendants living on a South Carolina sea island to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) this week. According to an AP report published in the Washington Post, the photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe were taken between 1977 and...