- “Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and American Culture," a new exhibit highlighting celebrity activist, Oprah Winfrey, opened at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via WAPO]
- Archivists with The Obsidian Collection are digitizing and publishing newspapers that document the Great Migration, Civil Rights, and Jim Crow eras. [via Info Docket]
- Baby hatchling alert! An endangered Guam kingfisher, in fact the most endangered species at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, was born. [via Smithsonian Insider]
- How historic taxonomic literature on apple cultivars is informing today's cider making! [via Biodiversity Heritage Library Blog]
- A look at 3 portraits of Robert Kennedy on the eve of the anniversary of his death. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- “Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World,” at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., examines disease epidemics and how they shape our world. [via Science News]
- Our own Tad Bennicoff, reference archivist, fills listeners in on Smokey Bear, the celebrity bear cub burned in a New Mexico forest fire who lived out his years in the National Zoo. [via Sidedoor]
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