Uplifting the Black Family: NMAAHC Black History Month Social Media Campaign Other programs include the third installment of the museum’s popular education series, “Artists at Home,” for students grades six to 12 a new children’s program series based on the museum’s newest Joyful ABC’s activity book series and a discussion about race and medicine with educators from the museum and the National Portrait Gallery. The February session will cover race, justice and mass incarceration in the United States. The museum’s Black History Month celebration also features the digital return of one of its signature programs, "A Seat at the Table," an interactive program for participants to consider challenging questions about race, identity and economic justice over a meal. They will be joined by several contributors to the book, including Herb Boyd, City University of New York Kali Nicole Gross, Emory University Peniel Joseph, University of Texas and Annette Gordon Reed, Harvard University. In this discussion moderated by Mary Elliott, the museum’s curator of American slavery, Kendi and Blain will focus on slavery, reconstruction and segregation and their continuing impact on the United States. Blain on their newly released book Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019, a 10-part book spanning 400 years of African American history. The month kicks off February 2 with a book discussion with authors and scholars Ibram X. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is offering a wide range of digital programs for all ages this February. If I were a teenager today, I would carry it in my backpack.Smithsonian will celebrate Black History Month this year with a twist-virtual programming. This superbly edited book comes right on time in this unenlightened moment in US history and serves as a reminder of a different set of democrats who have creatively turned 400 years of painful, uplifting ugliness into beautiful Blackness, inspiring histories of lifelong democratic struggle to be an unshackled people. All of the poets in the volume lift this history into song. All of the essays in Four Hundred Souls are powerful and beautifully succinct. Woodson, one of the founding organizers of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915, and his generational cohort are smiling down at this book. For me, what is exciting about Four Hundred Souls are the voices of scholars who, with their own rich and diverse Black experiences, use their journalistic, literary, and scholarly muscle to inform a wider public about the continuous historical struggles of their kith and kin in shaping the United States. an inspiring book of historical observations, poetry, scholarship, and vignettes.
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