Book reimagines powerful moments from Black history through young readers' eyes
ABC News' Linsey Davis speaks with Regis and Kahran Bethencourt, authors of the book "Greatness," about educating children on ...
Smithsonian Magazine11h
The Trailblazing Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Racial Passing
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Just Because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” With this breezy pronouncement, Belle da Costa Greene handily differentiated herself from most librarians. She stood out for other ...
AP photographer captures a bagpiper emerging from surreal green smoke during military exercises
SMARDAN, Romania (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vadim Ghirda has been working for The Associated Press since 1990 ...
Observer22h
In Atlanta, Sally Mann’s Affecting Look at the Naïve Boldness of Adolescence
Before visiting this exhibition, my mind was primed for a certain interpretation of it. The recent federal moves to erase ...
Robin Givhan: America’s shared, contradictory, conflicted racial story
In the dimly lit, subterranean galleries of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, some of this country ...
The Sacramento Observer16h
The Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Passing
In the early 20th century — a time when men held most positions of authority — Greene was a celebrated book agent, a curator and the first director of the Morgan Library. She also earned US$10,000 a ...