Dr. Harry Robinson Jr. founded the African American Museum in 1974 and has been its primary guiding force ever since.(2008 File Photo / Jim Mahoney) Dr. Harry Robinson Jr., founder, president and ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has purchased a groundbreaking collection of images by some of history’s earliest Black photographers. Pictures from the first African ...

Thirteen years after it was authorized, and more than a century after the idea for a museum on the Mall devoted to the African American experience was first broached, the Smithsonian is opening a ...

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection box of the Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Society, owned by Garrison family, ca. 1830s - 1850s.

A dream for 100 years, the National Museum of African American History and Culture promises to become an instant favorite when it opens Sept. 24, its soaring spaces and magical views of the Mall a ...

T he International African American Museum (IAMM) in South Carolina will soon be in possession of 175-year-old photos believed to be of early enslaved people after settling a 15-year legal battle ...