A black clip on bow tie from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The satin, pre-tied, butterfly bow tie has a small piece of matching black fabric that wraps around the bow at the center and is stitched closed at the back, forming the center…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.1.1.25
Marcus Vance Gloster (born April 29, 1986), known professionally as Black Cobain, is an American rapper. He collaborated on the Wale track "4 AM" and was the opening act of Wale's 2011-2012 53-city "Ambition" tour.
A black-and-white photograph of a line of six men walking with arms linked at the head of a large crowd of marchers. Tony Brown is pictured second to the right. He is wearing a suit as is the man next to him. The men at the opposite end of the line are…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.15.190
This object is comprised of eight discs (a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h) of the long-playing record Black Composers Series, an album box liner (i), and box (j) and lid (k) . The vinyl discs (a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h) has a round red label with yellow text on the left-hand side…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.189.57a-k
Black Creation magazine, volume 1, number 1, April 1970 featuring a black and white image of a woman. The woman looks to the right and is seen smiling. She wears a dark colored shirt with a wide, white collar. In the top left quadrant is the publication…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.201.14
Black Creation magazine, volume 1, number 2, Summer 1970 featuring a black and white photograph of two (2) people on the front cover. The image includes a woman and man standing behind a wrought iron fence. The woman stands below the man on a set of steps…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.201.15
A black crepe pant suit designed by Michael Harrell and worn by Patti Labelle at the 34th Grammy Awards. The black jacket is made of wool crepe and has a wide off the shoulder mink fur collar (a). The jacket opens at the center front, it closes with four…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.58ab
A black-and-white photograph of Ella Baker speaking into a microphone and gesturing with her left hand. In the background there is a large portrait of Michael ‘Mickey’ Schwerner.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.107.2
A design proof of the first issue of the newsletter Black Diaspora Portfolio: Architecture and Design. The newsletter is a single sheet folded once into four pages. The layout, design, and graphics for the publication are all present, but most of the text…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.25.7
A black dress sock from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The single sock is knee length and is solidly black. It is woven with thick vertical ribbing that runs from the top of the foot, over the ankle and calf, and terminates at the top just…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.1.1.3
Black dress worn by Oprah Winfrey as the character Sofia Johnson in the film "The Color Purple." The short-sleeved shift dress is made from a single piece of black rayon-cotton blend satin that is folded in half at the shoulder and seamed down each side,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.184.1.1
A PNG digital illustration of the "descent view" from a project titled "Black Effect" by Tobi Ashiru. The project is an artistic reimagining of the National Museum of African American History and Culture with this view depicting the exterior of the west…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.114.1
A PNG digital illustration of the “entry view” from a project titled “Black Effect” by Tobi Ashiru. The project is an artistic reimagining of the National Museum of African American History and Culture with this view depicting the approach to the east side…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.114.2
An Adobe Illustrator file of the “lower view render” from a project titled “Black Effect” by Tobi Ashiru. The project is an artistic reimagining of the National Museum of African American History and Culture with this view depicting an exterior view of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.114.3
An Adobe Illustrator file of the “main view render” from a project titled “Black Effect” by Tobi Ashiru. The project is an artistic reimagining of the National Museum of African American History and Culture with this view depicting the approach to the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.114.4
An Adobe Illustrator file of the site plan and elevations from a project titled "Black Effect" by Tobi Ashiru. The project is an artistic reimagining of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. This is a grouping of five imagined…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.114.5
An Adobe Illustrator file of the “upper view render” from a project titled “Black Effect” by Tobi Ashiru. The project is an artistic reimagining of the National Museum of African American History and Culture with this view depicting an elevated exterior…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.114.6
A digital image of an architectural rendering titled "Black Elevation." It consists of a single Portable Network Graphics file (.png). The image's background is a pale orange with a large beige circle in the middle. Lines with concentric ovals and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2022.106.1
An issue of Black Enterprise magazine, July 1989, Volume 19, No. 12. The front cover header in white type reads: [BLACK / ENTERPRISE / JULY 1989 $1.95] and in blue type: [Executive Health & Fitness Guide]. Underneath the header there is a color image of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.76.12.5
A first edition, first printing of “Black Feeling, Black Talk" by Nikki Giovanni. The book has a olive paper binding held together using two metal staples at spine. The title of the book has been printed in black text, [BLACK FEELING / BLACK TALK], across…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.325
This is a paperback volume of poetry titled "Black Feeling, Black Talk/ Black Judgement" by Nikki Giovanni. The cover is done in tonal dots of brown and black that makes up an image of a crowd of people. A white rectangle is centered at the top margin.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.254.3
A hardcover book with a coated paper dust jacket. The book has a black cloth binding and orange endpapers. The front jacket cover is black with “Black Fire” written in stylized red text with flames bordering the black letters. The flames extend toward the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.152.3
Volume 1, Number 2, Winter 1976-77, of Black Forum Magazine. The cover has red and black ink on a white glossy paper background, along with monochromatic photographs of G. Falcon Beazer, John Sanders, Mason A. Cox, and Margarite Gaines, on the right. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.59.10
