From WondaGurl to Ebonie Smith, Black women have produced award-winning pop hits. Yet they are not always household names like some of their counterparts. In Respect Her Crank!: Producing Sounds of Blackness, this changes. Award-winning producer J’Nae White facilitates multiple workshops designed to teach the art of music production, as inspired by Black women producers. This workshop is all […]
What's under her microscope? This month we'll meet Dr. Kali Holder, veterinary pathologist at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Find out how Kali's job is like that of a detective, searching for the clues of diseases and cause of death in animals at the Zoo and in the wild. Get a glimpse of some un-ZOO-sual careers at […]
Left to right: The Ellington Apartments on U Street, NW; Howard Theater (Photo: Kevin Rutherford); "The Godfather of Go-Go" Chuck Brown, 2011 (Photo: Mark Taylor); The Stoneman Family band, courtesy of Roni Rocking the Capital After WWII, music, society, mass media, and technology heralded the emergence of teen power. Once again, Washington reflected and created […]
Mary Lou Williams, ca. 1946, by William P. Gottlieb Forgotten No More: Rediscovering Remarkable Women Part of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story PROGRAM DESCRIPTION From a 17th-century workshop in the Netherlands to a classroom in 1660 in Frankfurt, to the streets of Washington in the early 1900s to musical stages […]