This black-and-white photograph depicts a large crowd on the colonnaded steps of the National Gallery of Art. Beneath the portico and on the steps the crowd of men talk, mingle, and sit.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.99.13
Benedict Lombe is a Congolese-British writer. She has won multiple awards as a playwright, including the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (2022) for her debut play Lava (2021). Her play Shifters premiered at Bush Theatre in 2024 and transferred to the Duke of…
Bénédicte Boisseron is a French academic. She has worked as a professor at the University of Montana and University of Michigan. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of Creole Renegades (2014) and Afro-Dog (2018).
Benedita Souza da Silva Sampaio (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [beneˈdʒitɐ ˈsowzɐ da ˈsiwvɐ sɐ̃ˈpaju]; born 26 April 1942) is a Brazilian politician. From a working-class background, she faced class and racial prejudice, overcoming it to become the…
Benedito Gonçalves (born January 30, 1954) is a Brazilian magistrate, currently a minister of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ). He was also a minister of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) for the 2021-2023 biennium, as well as corregidor-general of the…
Adegbenga Otomayomi Adejumo (born 1 September 1986), known as Benga, is a British musician from Croydon, known for being a pioneer of dubstep record production. He has been featured on a variety of compilations including Mary Anne Hobbs's Warrior Dubz,…
Printed caption on recto reads: "Bengasi - Agricoltore Indigeno." Translated caption reads: "Bengasi - Native farmer." Printed text on verso reads: "15952 VAT- depositata; riprod. interdetta a termini di legge.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA LY 2013-001-0316
Benicio Baker-Boaitey (born 9 January 2004) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for EFL Championship club Millwall. Baker-Boaitey, an England youth international, had spells in the youth academies of West Ham United and Porto before…
Maria da Conceição Santos, CIANSP (religious name: Benigna Victim of Jesus; 16 August 1907 — 16 October 1981) was an Afro-Brazilian religious sister of the Congregation of Auxiliaries of Our Lady of Piety. On October 15, 2011, her beatification cause was…
Benik Tunani Afobe (born 12 February 1993) is a professional footballer who plays for Al-Arabi as a striker. Born in England, he represented the DR Congo national team on six occasions between 2017 and 2018. Afobe signed a professional contract with…
Photograph by Walker Evans in 1935 of a Benin bronze head displayed in an exhibit of the same year entitled 'African Negro Art' in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Original catalog caption reads, "Head, Benin, British Nigeria, Bronze, 7 3/4 inches…
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1985-010, Item EEPA 1985-100184
