Culture Watch

Freedom Monument Sculpture Park
Alabama’s Freedom Monument Sculpture Park is dedicated to taking an unflinching look at the country’s racist history.
/ March 18, 2024
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Launched in B.I.G.’s native Brooklyn by his daughter, T’yanna Wallace, The Biggie Experience museum immerses fans in hip-hop history.
/ March 18, 2024
Underground Railroad stamps
USPS has unveiled several stamps honoring 10 men and women who helped guide enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
/ March 15, 2024
Influencers are in Washington to lobby Congress to reject a bill that would force TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company to sell or be banned in the United States.
/ March 13, 2024
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Dalila Scruggs joins the Washington, D.C.-based Smithsonian American Art Museum as its first Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art.
/ March 13, 2024
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Pop culture critic Miles Marshall Lewis explores the throughline from the Harlem Renaissance to hip-hop in The Met’s new exhibition.
/ March 6, 2024
Listen in as hosts Alexandria Ikomoni and Chelsea LeMore-Monroe discuss the top three male unsung heroes in Black culture.
/ March 6, 2024