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National Museum of African American History & Culture - Public Programs

  • May
    10 Fri
    Through the African American Lens: The Riot Report

    Through the African American Lens: The Riot Report

    Washington, DC
    United States
    Show at 7:00 PM
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    INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: March 22, 2024 11:45 AM to May 10, 2024 7:00 PM

    PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
    Join us for a film preview and discussion of American Experience PBS’ The Riot Report, which explores a pivotal moment in the nation’s history. When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to answer three questions: What happened? Why did it happen? And what could be done to prevent it from happening again? The commission’s final report would offer a shockingly unvarnished assessment of American race relations that would doom its finding to political oblivion. The Riot Report premieres on PBS stations nationwide on May 21 at 9/8c.

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  • Jun
    7 Fri
    Historically Speaking: Alice Randall: My Black Country

    Historically Speaking: Alice Randall: My Black Country

    Washington, DC
    United States
    Show at 7:00 PM
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    INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: March 7, 2024 10:01 AM to June 7, 2024 7:00 PM

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    Join us for a book talk celebrating My Black Country, a recent release by Alice Randall, an award-winning professor, songwriter, and author.

    Randall offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music in the work of DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries who, together, made up a community of Black Americans rising through hard times to create simple beauty, true joy, and sometimes profound eccentricity.

    My Black Country celebrates of the most American of music genres and the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture. Randall will be joined in conversation by NMAAHC’s Steven Lewis, Curator of Music and the Performing Arts, and Kelly Navies, Oral History Museum Specialist.

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