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In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to fight for equality and freedom It was a Thursday evening, nearing the end of a summer work week that Elbert Williams, a charter member of his town’s NAACP chapter, spent carrying outContinue reading “These Black Americans Were Killed for Exercising Their Political Right to Vote”

The Smithsonian Design Triennial presents 25 commissions that explore the physical and conceptual ideas of shelter and refuge Every three years, the nation’s cutting-edge designers, artists and architects convene at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York for its triennial to interpret the creative and cultural themes of contemporary life—always with magnificent, eye-catching surprises.Continue reading “See What Happened When One Museum Asked Artists to Define ‘Home’”