#national mall

1910-1920. “New National Museum [of Natural History] and Gallery, Washington, D.C." Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.

This weekend, the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) opened just down the road from us on the National Mall!

Following decades of work to promote and feature the contributions of African Americans, the Act to establish NMAAHC was authorized by Congress in 2003. The museum officially opened September 24, 2016, as the 19th @smithsonian museum. It is the only national museum dedicated entirely to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture.

In celebration of the opening of the NMAAHC, a 1927 pamphlet showing an early design for an African American memorial museum, and the act that was passed in 2003 are on display in the “Featured Documents” exhibit in the East Rotunda Gallery of the @usnatarchives in Washington, DC, through November 9, 2016.

Only the real will know why lol!

Glad to see it this empty and also not surprised that no one wants to attend this event while Trump is in office. #bringbackbarack #BBB

Glad to see that DCPS is capitalizing off its Emmy’s fame!

Looks like Metro has more to worry about than just pleasing its customers.

In 2004 @npr’s Noah Adams recorded his visit to one of the National Mall’s lesser-known monuments, the District of Columbia War Memorial.

“…We call these World War I memorials, but that is only a corrective note of history. There was not to be another conflict of such scale. The inscription on the base of this white marble structure says only ‘The Great War to Save Civilization.’”

Image: District of Columbia War Memorial. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images.

“The Poor People’s Campaign was an effort to do precisely that, not with just a march but with an extended occupation of the National Mall in Washington. Organized by Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference — and led by Ralph Abernathy after Dr. King’s assassination — the campaign brought around 3,000 people from all over the country to a spit of land that would soon be drenched by rains, and filled with wooden shanties and varied attempts at utopian do-it-yourself collectivism.” In 1968, a ‘Resurrection City’ of Tents, Erected to Fight Poverty https://nyti.ms/2luphET

The National Mall by night. Korean War memorial, Martin Luther King memorial, Lincoln memorial and World War II memorial.

May 2018

© Jantine Broek