Results for "African Americans -- Social conditions"
Smithsonian African American Association
- Date: February 9, 2016
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: The Smithsonian African American Association was formed in 1989 and was an assembly of the Institution's employees who have organized to project a united voice, to have an impact upon pan-institutional policies that affect African Americans, and to convey these concerns to the Smithsonian Administration.
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Save Our African American Treasures
- Date: March 29, 2011
- Description: [caption id="attachment_12162" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="A participant discusses a lock of hair from a member of her family with NMAAHC staff at a Save Our African American Treasures event held in Detroit, Michigan, by Michael Barnes, Courtesy of The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture."][/caption] [caption
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For All the World to See
- Date: February 10, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE.
Documenting the Opening of a Museum
- Date: September 27, 2016
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A look at how documenting the opening of a museum has changed in the age of social media.
Link Love: 5/18/2018
- Date: May 18, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture acquired a portrait of Henrietta Lacks, the African American woman whose cells were unknowingly contributed to over 10,000 medical patents, aiding research and benefiting patients with polio, AIDS, Parkinson’s disease and other conditions. [via Smithsonian
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Solomon G. Brown, Renaissance Man
- Date: February 1, 2011
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. “I have engaged in almost Every Branch of work that is usual and unusual about S.I.”[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5597,size=150,left] These words, written by Solomon G. Brown to Secretary Spencer F. Baird on August 12,
Link Love: 06/05/2020
- Date: June 5, 2020
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Link Love: 6/22/2018
- Date: June 22, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The American Foundation for the Blind launched the Helen Keller Archive, the world's first fully accessible digital archive comprised of more than 160,000 artifacts. [via PR Newswire]Ahead of his major retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, artist Trevor Paglen shares his views on the social and political implication of surveillance systems and artificial
Take This Job & Shoot It!
- Date: September 10, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 10/25/2019
- Date: October 25, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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Link Love: 9/14/2018
- Date: September 14, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Date: August 31, 2011
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.