Leaders at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and others say their core mission of elevating Black ...

A Richmond museum is preparing to open an exhibition in June that will explore the lives of free Black Virginians from 1619 ...

What Flanagan understands is that the real story of America includes the story of slavery. He looked around at all the people ...

In 2003, when officials finally approved the idea of an African-American museum in Washington, they could not have foreseen how fateful the timing would be. The opening this month of the National ...

Long overlooked or stereotyped, African contemporary art is finally receiving global attention, writes Wim Pijbes, former ...

The national capital region has a proud history of fighting for inclusion. Ahead of WorldPride this year, explore how your ...

This large museum, named for its founder Charles Wright, tells the story of the African American experience from the beginning of time to the Civil Rights Movement and beyond. Opened since 1966 ...

For six days in September, 2015, Pope Francis made a historic visit to the United States, visiting some of the country's biggest cities and speaking to massive crowds of the faithful along the way.

The Museum of African American History and Culture will ... which is the National Mall proper, and then open onto the Washington Monument grounds? In a way, we always conceived of our building ...

The Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are both open from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and admission to both is always free. The shared building sits adjacent to the Gallery Place ...

During her first year as the District of Columbia’s congressional delegate in 1991, Eleanor Holmes Norton attended nearly 500 ...