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Photograph of Daphne Muse with NMAAHC staff and scholar activists

November 14, 2023

Brentwood, Contra Costa County, California, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A digital image of activist and writer Daphne Muse with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s oral historian, Kelly Elaine Navies, with two scholar activists, Natalie Riddick (Loyola Marymount University) and Kailyn Bailey (Howard University), at Muse's home in Brentwood, California. Navies coordinated the Social Justice Conversations Oral History Project Riddick. Riddick and Bailey were both interviewers for the project, with Riddick interviewing Muse. The image captures three individuals, Riddick, Muse, and Bailey, in front of Navies, who stands behind Riddick and Muse. Riddick, on the left, wears a grey/purple long-sleeved shirt with a headband. Muse, in the middle, wears a red long-sleeved shirt with a black-and-crème patterned pants, a black headband, and colorful earrings. Bailey, crouched down on the right, wears a white long-sleeved shirt. Navies wears a black shirt and wears a necklace. In the background is a single blue armchair on the right and an artwork directly behind the group.

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Catalog reference: 2025.12.9.4

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