WASHINGTON (AP) — At the Smithsonian museum dedicated to black history, visitors waited patiently Thursday to see Emmett Till's glass-topped casket. The line wound past an adjacent theater and a segregation-era railway car.
Barbara Whiting emerged from the exhibit and paused. "This (country) was Emmett Till's home, and he wasn't allowed to live his life. It's unfair," she said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the most recognizable openings in television history blares on a video screen: "I'm Oprah Winfrey, and welcome to The Oprah Winfrey Show!" The crowd goes wild. At the center of it all, a dancing young Oprah.
This moment, televised more than 30 years ago, is now part of a yearlong exhibition that opened Friday at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Oprah Hopes New Exhibit Will Be An Inspiration
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — As Lonnie Bunch walked through the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Thursday, he mused to museum director Pam Junior about the prominent figures on display that he knew - like the Ku Klux Klan leader with whom he came face-to-face, and the family of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy whose brutal murder in 1955 is widely regarded as the nation's final push into the civil rights movement.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With an offer to visit the White House as NBA champions rejected and rescinded, Kevin Durant and the Golden State Warriors instead spent their day off in the nation's capital touring the National Museum of African American History and Culture with local students.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In its first year, the Smithsonian's new black museum has become the nation's top temple to blackness, an Afrocentric shrine on the National Mall where people of all races, colors and creed are flocking to experience — and leave behind for posterity — the highs and lows of African-American life in the United States.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tourists found a noose Wednesday on the floor of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the second left at a Smithsonian site in less than a week, officials said.
The gallery containing an exhibit on segregation was closed for about three hours while U.S. Park Police investigated the incident in the nation's capital, Smithsonian officials said.
The hottest ticket in Washington, D.C., right now? It's for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, where thousands of tickets are snapped up each month within minutes of being released, a full seven months after the museum opened.
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's been years since Isabell Meggett Lucas has been inside the tiny house she was born in, a former slave cabin where her ancestors sought refuge from the hot South Carolina sun.
But the 86-year-old woman never envisioned that when she finally returned, the wooden two-room house would be viewed by millions of people inside the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture as an example of what home life was like for slaves in the South.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An album containing a rare photograph of abolitionist and Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman has been acquired by the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian's new African-American history museum.
The album was sold at auction Thursday in New York for $161,000. The National Museum of African American History and Culture and the national library announced their joint purchase on Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Family members of Emmett Till pushed Attorney General Jeff Sessions Tuesday to enforce a law that that allows prosecutors to reinvestigate old civil rights murder cases.
Trump Visits African American History Museum
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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The National Museum of African American History and Culture was a long time coming, but for architect Phil Freelon it was right on time.
"It seems like I was preparing for that my whole life," Freelon said in an interview at his office in Durham. "It came along at a time when I was prepared. If it had come online 10 years earlier, I think the Smithsonian might have considered me too young or not as experienced."
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24, and one of its key exhibits is a Jim Crow-era segregated railroad car donated by Knoxville businessman Pete Claussen.
It is the largest object displayed in the museum, and is a rare physical reminder of an ugly time in American history, said Claussen, chairman of Knoxville-based Gulf & Ohio Railways.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (all times local):
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The first national museum devoted exclusively to the history and culture of African-Americans is now open.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama opened the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall by ringing a bell from a historic African-American church.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Black history officially has a new, prominent place in America's story.
With hugs, tears and the ringing of church bells, the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture opened its doors Saturday to help this nation understand, reconcile and celebrate African-Americans' often-ignored contributions toward making this country what it is today.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Text of President Barack Obama's remarks on Saturday at the dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, as provided by the White House.
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James Baldwin once wrote, "For while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard." For while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first national museum devoted exclusively to the history and culture of African-Americans is now open.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama opened the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall by ringing a bell from a historic African-American church.
The museum is the 19th and the newest of the Smithsonians.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Things you need to know about the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on its opening weekend:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture is filled with artifacts that illustrate the African-American journey in the United States. There are so many important things inside the museum that seeing them all in a single visit would be a challenge.
Several exhibits that museum visitors may want to see in their first visit:
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday celebrated the pending opening of the Smithsonian's new African-American museum and said the institution, decades in the making, is a powerful place because it tells "the story of all of us," not just the famous.
Obama also said he hoped the museum would help people bridge divides that were re-exposed by the latest fatal, police-involved shootings of black men.
DETROIT (AP) — The dedication and official opening of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture won't just be celebrated in Washington.
WASHINGTON (AP) — I was feeling pretty good until I saw the cowry shells.
There they sat, arranged in neat little stark-white semi-circles on a dark pedestal lit by a spotlight. Disbelief made me lean in and read the display caption twice: "Cowries, manillas, beads, and guns changed hands in exchange for African men, women and children."
WASHINGTON (AP) — I was feeling pretty good until I saw the cowry shells.
There they sat, arranged in neat little stark-white semi-circles on a dark pedestal lit by a spotlight. Disbelief made me lean in and read the display caption twice: "Cowries, manillas, beads, and guns changed hands in exchange for African men, women and children."