A hardcover book (2023.30.2a) with a dust jacket (2023.30.2b), “Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’” is a nonfiction book written by Zora Neale Hurston on the life of Oluale Kossola, or Cudjo Lewis, the third to last survivor of the Atlantic…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.30.2ab
Barron Claiborne (born 1967) is an American photographer and cinematographer who grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He began taking photographs at the age of ten.
Barry Adamson (born 11 June 1958) is an English rock musician. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as a member of the post-punk band Magazine and went on to work with Visage, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and the electro musicians Pan Sonic. In addition…
Barry James Eastmond (born January 11, 1959) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and record producer. Eastmond is an adjunct professor of songwriting at the Steinhardt Performing Arts Department of New York University and has participated in the…
Barry Hankerson (born August 3, 1947) is an American record producer, record executive, and talent manager. He is the founder of Blackground Records, and the uncle of late singer and actress Aaliyah.
A black-and-white photograph of jazz musician Barry Harris standing next to a piano. Harris is photographed full-body and poses behind the bench of a piano. He wears a white suit jacket and a large decoration on his left lapel.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.164.167
Barry Jenkins (born November 19, 1979) is an American filmmaker. After making his filmmaking debut with the short film My Josephine (2003), he directed his first feature film, Medicine for Melancholy (2008), for which he received an Independent Spirit…
Barry Michael Cooper (June 12, 1958 – January 22, 2025) was an American writer, producer, and director, best known for his screenplays for the films New Jack City (1991), Sugar Hill (1994), and Above the Rim (1994), sometimes called his "Harlem Trilogy".
Barrington John Reckord (19 November 1926 – 20 December 2011), known as Barry Reckord, was a Jamaican playwright, one of the earliest Caribbean writers to make a contribution to theatre in Britain. His brother was the actor and director Lloyd Reckord, with…
Barry Eugene White (né Carter; September 12, 1944 – July 4, 2003) was an American R&B, soul and disco singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer. A two-time Grammy Award winner known for his bass voice and romantic image, his greatest success came in…
Bartering Home Grown Produce - Mexico City Market Place, 1950's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 158. A black-and-white photograph of bartering over produce at an open-air market in Mexico City.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.74.123
Postcard image of men, women, and a child in a village. Text on verso reads: "Chez les Barundis a Kanyinia, Urundi, Congo Belge." and "(Mission des Dames de Marie); Uccle-Bruxelles.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog sova.eepa.1985-014_ref736
Barzillai Lew (November 5, 1743 – January 18, 1822) was an American soldier who fought in the French and Indian War. He later served with distinction during the American Revolutionary War.
Abbas Hamad (born May 27, 1987), known professionally as Bas, is a French-born American rapper. He signed with J. Cole's Dreamville Records, an imprint of Interscope Records to release his debut studio album, Last Winter (2014). It was met with positive…
Original text on slide reads, "Base of Cement funerary sculpture. Reads"This is the grave of Madan Nwa Essien Inyang of Nsasak Aba Road. Who died in the ?". Uyo to Ikot-Ekpenne to Aba road. Ibibio. Sunday probably. Detail of SL21-33".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-1444
Wooden baseball bat used as a prop by the character Sal from the motion picture, "Do the Right Thing." Bat is inherently burned and distressed with charring throughout. Stamped inside an oval in the center of the front is text [HILLERICH & BRADSBY CO./NO.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.270.4
