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    Forces for Change: Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women’s Activism Added

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    Forces for Change: Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women’s Activism

    Learn about renowned educator and reformer Mary McLeod Bethune and other Black women social change agents, past and present. 

    July 19, 2024 – Ongoing

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    Reclaiming My Time

    Works by contemporary Black designers engage ideas about cultural heritage, bodies at rest, and histories of labor and leisure.

    May 31, 2024 – January 2026

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    Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism, and Popular Culture Added

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    Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism, and Popular Culture

    Spirit in the Dark examines Black religious life through a selection of photographs from the publisher of Ebony, Jet, and Negro Digest.

    November 18, 2022 – April 2026

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    Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.

    This exhibition explores how art depicts Black resistance, resilience, and protest.

    September 10, 2021 – Ongoing

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    Taking the Stage

    See how African Americans transformed the ways they are represented onstage by challenging racial discrimination and stereotypes. 

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

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    Making a Way Out of No Way

    Learn about the ways in which African Americans created possibilities in a world that denied them opportunities.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

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    A Century in the Making: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture

    This exhibit explores the journey toward fulfillment of the long-held dream of building the museum. 

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

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    Explore More!

    This interactive, multifaceted space is dedicated to helping visitors connect and engage with African American history and culture.

    September 24, 2016 – Ongoing

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    Cultural Expressions

    This exhibition serves as an introduction to the concept of African American and African diaspora culture. 

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

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    Musical Crossroads

    This exhibition tells the story of African American music from the arrival of the first Africans to today’s hip-hop.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

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    Power of Place

    Experience the broad diversity of African American life and regional cultures in communities that took root in different areas of the country.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

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    Visual Art and the American Experience

    This art exhibition illustrates the critical role that African American artists played in shaping the history of American art.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

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    Sports: Leveling the Playing Field

    Learn how African Americans have contributed to sports in American and how sports have helped people respond to injustice.

    September 24, 2016 – Indefinitely

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    Double Victory: The African American Military Experience Added

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    Double Victory: The African American Military Experience

    Learn about the service and sacrifice of African American soldiers, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, and sailors.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

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    Slavery and Freedom

    This exhibition explores the complex story of slavery and freedom, a story standing at the core of our national experience.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

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    Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: Era of Segregation 1876-1968 Added

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    Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: Era of Segregation 1876-1968

    This exhibition takes visitors from the end of Reconstruction through the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

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    A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond

    This exhibition illustrates the impact of African Americans on life in the United States—social, economic, political, and cultural.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

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