National Capital Parks - East Youth Programs

10/13/2024

Descendants Day at Oatlands, October 20, 1pm-5pm
Join us for a special screening of Rhythms of the Land, a valentine to generations of Black farmers in the United States from the enslavement period to the present. The film starts promptly at 1:00 and will be followed by a conversation with director Dr. Gail Myers. The program is free, open to the public, and held in the event tent. Parking is in the main parking lot with a short walk to the tent.

Join us for a special screening of Rhythms of the Land, a valentine to generations of Black farmers in the United States from the enslavement period to the present. The film […]

08/20/2024

Dr. Coleman-Robinson speaks on empowering museums as AAAM conference returns to Baltimore https://afro.com/aaam-conference-returns-baltimore/ Association of African American Museums ✊🏾

Association of African American Museums returns to Baltimore for annual conference, exploring the impact of African-American history and culture.

02/17/2024

'Representation is powerful': Bust of Frederick Douglass unveiled in Statehouse’

https://www.telegram.com/story/news/state/2024/02/14/bust-of-frederick-douglass-unveiled-in-massachusetts-statehouse/72598364007/

Museum of African American History - Boston and Nantucket’s Noelle Trent was a featured speaker

National Trust for Historic Preservation
Association of African American Museums

The sculpture of Douglass is the first bust depicting a person of color in a permanent place in the Statehouse.

02/15/2024

An incredible moment for the descendants movement captured in this article "Coming Together with the Descendant Communities Social Innovation Lab" National Trust for Historic Preservation partnering with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

In March 2023, descendant communities from across the nation convened at the National Museum of African American History and Culture for the Descendant Communities Social Innovation Lab in partnership with the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.

01/15/2024

Happy 95th Birthday to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.!

01/25/2022

in 1874, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Inspired by Latino revolutionaries, Schomburg was an advocate for Puerto Rican independence and Black liberation.

After arriving in New York in 1891, he joined Los Independientes, an organization passionate about Puerto Rican independence. Schomburg's interests shifted during the 1890s amid rising racial tension and the disbanding of the Cuban Revolutionary Party.

After visiting the South and being confronted for the first time with the inequalities of Jim Crow, Schomburg took an interest in learning more about the history of the United States. He collected and read books and manuscripts, co-founded the Negro Society for Historical Research and joined the American Negro Academy.

Through the years, Schomburg amassed a personal collection of over 10,000 books, manuscripts, artifacts, and pamphlets. The New York Public Library purchased Schomburg's collection in 1926, forming the core of what is today known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

📸 Courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library, Digital Collections.

01/25/2022

By AFRO Staff A new stamp honoring Edmonia Lewis, a pioneering African-American and Native American sculptor who surmounted racial and gender barriers to earn international acclaim, will begin circulation Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Postal Service. The USPS will honor Lewis as “first African Am...

01/25/2022

PGParks History

Willa Beatrice Brown-Chappell, born in 1906, achieved numerous firsts. Most notably, she was the first African American woman to earn her pilot's license in the United States. Brown-Chappell also earned a mechanic’s license, making her the first woman to hold both that and a pilot’s license. Additionally, she was the first African American woman Congressional candidate, and the first African American officer in the United States Civil Air Patrol.

Brown-Chappell dedicated her life to fighting for gender and racial equality in the military. Brown lobbied for integration of the U.S. Army Air Corps and the Civilian Pilot Training Program. She is also a co-founder of the Cornelius Coffey School of Aeronautics, the first private flight school owned and operated by African Americans. She is responsible for the training of hundreds of pilots, including many who became part of the elite Tuskegee Airmen.

📸 Willa B. Brown Photograph, Accession number 1987-0095, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

06/15/2020

07/08/2019

The 19-year-old singer, who is half of the R&B duo Chloe x Halle, will star as Ariel in Disney’s remake.