As the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum prepares to mark its 60th anniversary in 2027, the exhibition “We Make ...

Connecting the Worlds of the African Diaspora: The Living Legacy of Lorenzo Dow Turner was a symposium held at the Anacostia Community Museum November 12-13, 2010. The keynote speaker was Emory Shaw ...

The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum will be holding a special lecture on the environment tomorrow at 7 p.m. as part of its 23rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. program. Robert D. Bullard, the ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly 150 people packed two rooms of the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum in Southeast DC to listen to storyteller Mama Ayo celebrate the first day of Kwanzaa. "Kwanzaa is a ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...

Katrina D. Lashley is a program coordinator at Anacostia Community Museum where she leads the Urban Waterways Project, documenting the relationship between urban communities and their watersheds ...