Addison Scurlock: Chronicling black life and excellence in D.C.
Discover the legacy of Addison Scurlock, a Black photographer who captured the history of Black life and excellence in Washington, D.C.
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Discover the legacy of Addison Scurlock, a Black photographer who captured the history of Black life and excellence in Washington, D.C.
Madam C.J. Walker, who built a beauty empire and became the country’s first self-made female millionaire, got her start selling hair products to Black women in and around Denver.
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – From photography’s beginnings in the United States, Black studio photographers operated on the developing edge of photographic
By A photograph of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Washington, D.C. 1915. Photo by Addison Scurlock. (Courtesy of University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press, Special Collections & Museums, Alice Dunbar-Nelson Papers) The Rosenbach Library and Museum in Philadelphia is elevating a little-known Black Victorian-era writer and activist, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, with an exhibition of her life and work. “I Am an American!” was planned for the museum’s exhibition space in its Rittenhouse Square building. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the exhibit is instead entirely online. Given Rosenbach’s plet...