American artist Charles White’s famed 1943 mural The Contribution of the Negro to Democracy in America celebrates prominent African Americans who fought for equality. Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver and Crispus Attucks are depicted in the work, which appears on a wall at Hampton University, a
historically black university in Virginia. ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 29 September, 2021 | Topics: Art & Culture, Culture, Education, History, News | Tags: African Americans, arts, cultural preservation, U.S. history
Arab Americans have long made outsized contributions to American society, whether in the area of science,
politics , the arts or other disciplines. The
2019 American Community Survey shows an estimated 2.1 million people in the United States reported Arab ancestry. The largest group is of Lebanese ancestry, but others claim Yemeni, Algerian, Saudi Arabian, Tunisian, Kuwaiti, Libyan, Kurdish or ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 1 April, 2021 | Topics: Art & Culture, Education, Embassy, History, News, Science & Tech | Tags: Arab Americans, arts, science
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Lenore T. Adkins The National Women’s Hall of Fame has inducted six trailblazing Black women into its unique sisterhood, recognizing their contributions at the Seneca Falls, New York, birthplace of the American women’s rights movement.
Its new Virtual Induction Series celebrates underrepresented women of achievement. It does this by posthumously recognizing marginalized women who were overlooked during their lifetimes or died before ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 1 March, 2021 | Topics: Art & Culture, History, Human Rights, Key Officials, News | Tags: African Americans, arts, civic equality, female leaders, women's empowerment
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Noelani Kirschner |
Sherry L. Brukbacher The history of Black American music in the United States spans four centuries, and now there’s a museum to honor that legacy. The
National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM), which opened January 30 in Nashville,
Tennessee , calls itself “the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced and inspired by African Americans.” Divided ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 24 February, 2021 | Topics: Art & Culture, History, Human Rights, News | Tags: African Americans, arts, cultural preservation, music, U.S. history
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Noelani Kirschner |
Suzanne K. Mast While the pandemic has forced many to stay home, museums across the United States are bringing their world-famous collections online for anyone to view. The public response has been enormous. American tech company Google recently reported its most searched terms of 2020, and the second most popular search after the word “virtual” was ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 13 January, 2021 | Topics: Culture, Health Issues, History | Tags: arts, Coronavirus, technology, U.S. history
Fans of old classics are now free to use and adapt stories, songs and films published in 1925 thanks to U.S. copyright laws’ protections for both the livelihoods of creators and the enjoyment of future generations. Among the thousands of works that entered the public domain January 1, 2021, are classic novels, such as F. ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 12 January, 2021 | Topics: Culture, History, News | Tags: arts, cultural preservation, intellectual property rights, music, U.S. history
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Lenore T. Adkins The National Women’s Hall of Fame has inducted six trailblazing Black women into its unique sisterhood, recognizing their contributions at the Seneca Falls, New York, birthplace of the American women’s rights movement.
Its new Virtual Induction Series celebrates underrepresented women of achievement. It does this by posthumously recognizing marginalized women who were overlooked during their lifetimes or died before ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 31 December, 2020 | Topics: Gender Issues, History, Human Rights, Key Officials, News | Tags: African Americans, arts, civic equality, female leaders, women's empowerment
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Lauren Monsen |
D. Thompson In recent days, many thousands of American families have faced holidays without loved ones who succumbed to COVID-19. Also in 2020 many notable Americans died — whether of COVID or another cause — who left an imprint on the world. David Dinkins — the first African-American mayor of New York City, who died ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 30 December, 2020 | Topics: Art & Culture, Culture, History, News | Tags: arts, U.S. history, women in the workforce
Music and politics have been closely linked throughout U.S. history, with songs that promote candidates (or attack their rivals) dating back more than 200 years. Those songs have often reflected the bruising nature of
U.S. campaigns , which Stuart Eizenstat — a U.S. diplomat and former White House domestic affairs director for President Jimmy Carter — once ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 29 October, 2020 | Topics: History, Human Rights, News, Video | Tags: arts, presidency, U.S. history
