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“I wanted to tell the stories of my family and my community,” said André Lô Sánchez, a 35-year-old filmmaker and photographer in Mexico City, Mexico. “I am a son of a Senegalese father and a Mexican mother. I didn’t know about the Black movement here when I was a kid.” During his youth, Lô Sánchez […]
At a time when we’re having a national discussion about how Black history fits into the American mosaic, we discovered that many stories of Black achievement are slipping away, going unpreserved for future generations. A nonpartisan, nonprofit organization called the historymakers is hoping to change that, by creating an expansive digital archive of first-person accounts. […]
The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has confirmed the launch dates of The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist, a docuseries about art making produced in partnership with MTV Entertainment Studios and PB&J TV + Docs. The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist premieres Friday, March 3, at 9 p.m. ET on MTV following […]
Media NoteOffice of the SpokespersonSeptember 15, 2022 President Putin’s unjustified war against Ukraine puts millions around the globe at risk of increasing food insecurity. The Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, one of the world’s largest exporters of food, has led to the damage or outright destruction of many of Ukraine’s arterial roads, railways . . […]
President Putin’s unjustified war against Ukraine puts millions around the globe at risk of increasing food insecurity. The Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, one of the world’s largest exporters of food, has led to the damage or outright destruction of many of Ukraine’s arterial roads, railways, ports, and food storage facilities that are essential to […]
The lot between the Charleston Squash Club and Carter’s City Self-Storage on Heriot Street is easy to miss. It appears overgrown and empty, but looks can be deceiving. That ground holds the remains of more than 2,000 African Americans who were buried there between 1865 and 1965. The Heriot Street cemetery is one of many […]
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