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The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), colloquially known as the Blacksonian, is a Smithsonian Institution museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the United States. [4] It was established in 2003 and opened its permanent home in 2016 with a ceremony led by President Barack Obama.
Authorization to create two additional museums, the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum, passed congress in 2020 as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. The museums have not yet been created and the Smithsonian has two years to select the museums’ locations on or near the ...
Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum Monroe: Louisiana: 1994 [129] Northwest African American Museum: Seattle: Washington: 2008 [130] Odell S. Williams Now And Then African-American Museum: Baton Rouge: Louisiana: 2001 [131] Old Dillard Museum: Fort Lauderdale: Florida: 1995 [132] Omenala Griot Afrocentric Teaching Museum ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) has named a new deputy director. The museum noted The post Smithsonian names Michelle Commander deputy director ...
The director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture will become the new leader of all Smithsonian museums. Lonnie Bunch was named the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian, the ...
Shaquille, shortened to "Shaq", is an example of an invented African-American spelling of the name Shakil. The Afrocentrism movement that grew in popularity during the 1970s saw the advent of African names among African Americans, as well as names imagined to be "African-sounding". Names such as Ashanti have African origins. [4]
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture has gone virtual. The critically acclaimed museum in Washington D.C., The post Smithsonian African American museum content ...
Jacquelyn Days was born in Florida but grew up in New Rochelle, New York. [2] She attained her undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence College. [1] After earning a master's degree from the University of Chicago, she attained a doctorate in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1981.