Smithsonian’s NMAAHC
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Join us Sept. 24-27 for "The Reunion" – a weekend of music, culture, reflection, and community, as we celebrate 10 years of preserving and sharing African American history and culture.
Register: nmaahc.si.edu/10Years
#NMAAHC10 #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory
@NMAAHC
Join us Sept. 24-27 for "The Reunion" – a weekend of music, culture, reflection, and community, as we celebrate 10 years of preserving and sharing African American history and culture.
Register: nmaahc.si.edu/10Years
#NMAAHC10 #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory
September 21, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Smithsonian’s NMAAHC
@NMAAHC
Join us Sept. 24-27 for "The Reunion" – a weekend of music, culture, reflection, and community, as we celebrate 10 years of preserving and sharing African American history and culture.
Register: nmaahc.si.edu/10Years
#NMAAHC10 #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory
@NMAAHC
Join us Sept. 24-27 for "The Reunion" – a weekend of music, culture, reflection, and community, as we celebrate 10 years of preserving and sharing African American history and culture.
Register: nmaahc.si.edu/10Years
#NMAAHC10 #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory
🛶James, 9/17: chs. 27, 28, 29: James the tenor; minstrelsy; black-white-black-passing.
Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype
Learn the history behind common African American stereotypes. #ANationsStory
nmaahc.si.edu
September 17, 2026 at 10:01 PM
🛶James, 9/17: chs. 27, 28, 29: James the tenor; minstrelsy; black-white-black-passing.
Thank you to the #NationalMuseumofAfricanAmericanHistoryandCulture
for commissioning a film that would welcome visitors into “the people's Museum.” #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory vimeo.com/user23324705...
for commissioning a film that would welcome visitors into “the people's Museum.” #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory vimeo.com/user23324705...
August 28: A Day In The Life Of A People
A film by Ava DuVernay, starring Regina King, Don Cheadle, Angela Bassett, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lupita Nyong’o, David Oyelowo, Michael Ealy, Andre Holland and Glynn Turman, August 28: A Day In The Life Of...
vimeo.com
August 28, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Thank you to the #NationalMuseumofAfricanAmericanHistoryandCulture
for commissioning a film that would welcome visitors into “the people's Museum.” #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory vimeo.com/user23324705...
for commissioning a film that would welcome visitors into “the people's Museum.” #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory vimeo.com/user23324705...
Here's some history. I also posted this link on the comment section of the Target apology for the white people asking ignorant questions.
Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype | National Museum of African American History and Culture share.google/1TaEXSIPowVr...
Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype | National Museum of African American History and Culture share.google/1TaEXSIPowVr...
Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype
Learn the history behind common African American stereotypes. #ANationsStory
share.google
August 25, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Here's some history. I also posted this link on the comment section of the Target apology for the white people asking ignorant questions.
Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype | National Museum of African American History and Culture share.google/1TaEXSIPowVr...
Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype | National Museum of African American History and Culture share.google/1TaEXSIPowVr...
She hasn’t gotten the follow-back from Eyal Yakoby yet 😢
July 19, 2026 at 1:29 PM
She hasn’t gotten the follow-back from Eyal Yakoby yet 😢
Very weird then in a country which the largest form of mass entertainment for decades and existing from the early 1800s up until the *1960s*, was white people dressing up as black people.
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype
Learn the history behind common African American stereotypes. #ANationsStory
nmaahc.si.edu
July 3, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Very weird then in a country which the largest form of mass entertainment for decades and existing from the early 1800s up until the *1960s*, was white people dressing up as black people.
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
#OnThisDay, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law. The law gave the federal government a new role in desegregating schools and other public facilities. #ANationsStory #APeoplesJourney
youtu.be/7Ihsaiwjvp0?... via @YouTube
youtu.be/7Ihsaiwjvp0?... via @YouTube
July 2, 2026 at 4:11 PM
#OnThisDay, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law. The law gave the federal government a new role in desegregating schools and other public facilities. #ANationsStory #APeoplesJourney
youtu.be/7Ihsaiwjvp0?... via @YouTube
youtu.be/7Ihsaiwjvp0?... via @YouTube
White people, due to privilege, it’s hard when anyone gives you limits. However, there’s things you can’t do others can do precisely b/c you’re privileged. There’s #racist history behind the use of black face that doesn’t exist for “white face”.
So, #WhiteFace = funny
black face = racist (see below)
So, #WhiteFace = funny
black face = racist (see below)
May 18, 2026 at 3:39 AM
White people, due to privilege, it’s hard when anyone gives you limits. However, there’s things you can’t do others can do precisely b/c you’re privileged. There’s #racist history behind the use of black face that doesn’t exist for “white face”.
So, #WhiteFace = funny
black face = racist (see below)
So, #WhiteFace = funny
black face = racist (see below)
#JimCrow #History
With the Republican #SCOTUS killing minority rights, and GOP states rapidly eliminating minority representation, the term "Jim Crow Era" is back in common use.
What does it mean?
With most of us too young to remember America before the #CivilRights Act of 1964, learn more here...
With the Republican #SCOTUS killing minority rights, and GOP states rapidly eliminating minority representation, the term "Jim Crow Era" is back in common use.
What does it mean?
With most of us too young to remember America before the #CivilRights Act of 1964, learn more here...
Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype
Learn the history behind common African American stereotypes. #ANationsStory
nmaahc.si.edu
May 12, 2026 at 1:15 PM
#JimCrow #History
With the Republican #SCOTUS killing minority rights, and GOP states rapidly eliminating minority representation, the term "Jim Crow Era" is back in common use.
What does it mean?
With most of us too young to remember America before the #CivilRights Act of 1964, learn more here...
With the Republican #SCOTUS killing minority rights, and GOP states rapidly eliminating minority representation, the term "Jim Crow Era" is back in common use.
What does it mean?
With most of us too young to remember America before the #CivilRights Act of 1964, learn more here...
"Many Southern whites reacted to this self-sufficiency by turning the fruit into a symbol of poverty. Watermelon came to symbolize a feast for the "unclean, lazy and child-like." To shame black watermelon merchants, popular ads and ephemera,"
Popular and Pervasive Stereotypes of African Americans
Stereotypes of African Americans grew as a natural consequence of both scientific racism and legal challenges to both their personhood and citizenship. #ANationsStory
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May 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM
"Many Southern whites reacted to this self-sufficiency by turning the fruit into a symbol of poverty. Watermelon came to symbolize a feast for the "unclean, lazy and child-like." To shame black watermelon merchants, popular ads and ephemera,"
i'm just posting resources for primary sources about how racist that pos is
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
Popular and Pervasive Stereotypes of African Americans
Stereotypes of African Americans grew as a natural consequence of both scientific racism and legal challenges to both their personhood and citizenship. #ANationsStory
nmaahc.si.edu
March 28, 2026 at 2:15 AM
i'm just posting resources for primary sources about how racist that pos is
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
"White Supremacy and Surveillance: Surveillance of Black economic activity has historically been used to prevent economic independence and to ensure Black people remain under the watchful eye of white authority."
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
Popular and Pervasive Stereotypes of African Americans
Stereotypes of African Americans grew as a natural consequence of both scientific racism and legal challenges to both their personhood and citizenship. #ANationsStory
nmaahc.si.edu
March 22, 2026 at 8:15 PM
"White Supremacy and Surveillance: Surveillance of Black economic activity has historically been used to prevent economic independence and to ensure Black people remain under the watchful eye of white authority."
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
Later that year, the Voting Rights Act passed, a landmark federal achievement of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory #WomensHistoryMonth
📸 Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, © 1965 Spider Martin.
📸 Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, © 1965 Spider Martin.
March 7, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Later that year, the Voting Rights Act passed, a landmark federal achievement of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory #WomensHistoryMonth
📸 Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, © 1965 Spider Martin.
📸 Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, © 1965 Spider Martin.
#OnThisDay in 1909, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was founded by an interracial group including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Mary White Ovington, and Moorfield Storey. #BlackHistoryMonth #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory
February 12, 2026 at 4:27 PM
#OnThisDay in 1909, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was founded by an interracial group including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Mary White Ovington, and Moorfield Storey. #BlackHistoryMonth #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory
Garrison’s blackface minstrelsy drew on nearly a century of racist history in which whites blackened their faces with burnt cork or shoe polish and portrayed Black people as “lazy, ignorant, superstitious, hypersexual, and prone to thievery and cowardice.” /4 nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype
Learn the history behind common African American stereotypes. #ANationsStory
nmaahc.si.edu
October 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Garrison’s blackface minstrelsy drew on nearly a century of racist history in which whites blackened their faces with burnt cork or shoe polish and portrayed Black people as “lazy, ignorant, superstitious, hypersexual, and prone to thievery and cowardice.” /4 nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
