🗞️ Now accepting applications for our fall 2024 internships! 🍂 ️ Gain practical museum skills, program development experience and more. Apply today: s.si.edu/434KJ4x

🎥 Join our Through the African American Lens series for a film preview of “The Riot Report” and panel discussion with writers and producers Michelle Ferrari and Jelani Cobb @Jelani9, and professor and author Elizabeth Hinton Elizabeth Hinton.
 
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#OnThisDay in 1899, #jazz musician Duke Ellington was born in Washington, D.C. Ellington composed more than 1,000 songs during his lifetime & is credited as one of the most influential American composers. #Music #APeoplesGroove

#OnThisDay in 1944, Dr. Frederick Douglass Patterson founded the United Negro College Fund. Popularized in the 1970s with the slogan, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste,” UNCF has raised more than $6 billion and helped more than 500,000 students in its 80-year history.

[WATCH LIVE] Author and Former White House Social Secretary Dyeesha Dyer discusses the personal impact of the Obama presidency and her road from imposter to impact: s.si.edu/44tEbyV

On Friday, May 31, we’re opening “Reclaiming My Time,” an exhibition space devoted to contemporary Black designers. The space will feature work by designers who engage with ideas related to rest, repose, and histories of labor and leisure.

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Smithsonian Gardens is partnering with the Smithsonian’s NMAAHC and to bring you Let's Talk African American Gardens. Join us Thursday, April 25th at noon for a free garden chat on Creating Life Changing Outdoor Spaces for Beauty, Harvest, Meaning and Joy with Leslie Bennett:

This evening marks the start of Passover, or “Pesach” in Hebrew, one of the most sacred holidays of the Jewish faith. Passover commemorates the story of the Israelites' departure from ancient Egypt. #BlackFaith