BLACK History Month

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH ARTICLES, LESSONS AND WEBINARS

Anacostia Community Museum
1901 Fort Pl SE, Washington, D.C.

Through March 5, visit this Smithsonian museum to see its exhibit about students and educators who made D.C., “a truly unparalleled center for Black arts education”.

"Bold and Beautiful Vision: A Century of Black Arts Education in Washington, DC, 1900–2000" includes art by Elizabeth Catlett, Alma Thomas, James A. Porter, Loïs Mailou Jones, David Driskell and more. Experience artwork full of inspiring stories, unseen and rare video footage and artistic artifacts.

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G Street NW, Washington, D.C.

The exhibition aims to give visitors a view of how African Americans in the mid-century's rising middle and business classes used the annual travel guide as a resource.

The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service collaborated with award-winning author, photographer and cultural documentarian Candacy Taylor to create this exhibit, which is open during the library's regular operating hours. Here's more information.