Smithsonian
Ginny Montes Guided the Next Generation of Women Activists
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- Ginny Montes Guided the Next Generation of Women Activists
- Runtime
- 1:44
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- As Secretary of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Ginny Montes inspired women to run for elected office around the country through leadership programs.
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- Billie Jean King's Dress #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- “I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn’t win that match. It would ruin the women’s [tennis] tour and affect all women’s self-esteem. To beat a 55-year-old guy was no thrill for me. The thrill was exposing a lot of new people to tennis.” - Billie Jean King
Fifty years ago, Billie Jean King wore this outfit when she played Bobby Riggs in what would be known as a "Battle of the Sexes” in Houston, Texas. This match aired on prime-time TV, where tens of millions of viewers tuned in to watch as King beat Riggs in straight sets. King’s victory is considered to be a major milestone in tennis.
This dress is in the collection of our National Museum of American History, you can now explore it in 3D thanks to our Smithsonian 3D Digitization.
Video Description: 3D rendering of white tennis dress with front buttons. The top of the dress has a blue and white swirled-vine design and a light blue Peter Pan collar with a small tennis-...
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- Otter vs. Raccoon #short
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- 0:13
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- “Stop! Thief!” Watch as this cheeky raccoon brazenly steals food straight from an otter.
Did you know that otters are apex predators vital to the health of the Chesapeake food chain?
This video is from our Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, where researchers have been studying the Chesapeake Bay environment for 60 years. #short
🎥: Karen McDonald/SERC
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- Race, Policy, and Ethics - English with Audio Description
- Runtime
- 4:46
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Whether as laws, principles, or cultural practices, policies guide collective action and influence social norms. Anti-racist policies enact purposeful and ethical actions to promote racial equity and justice for all people. Anti-racist policies enact purposeful and ethical actions that promote racial equity and justice for all people. This pillar addresses how formal and informal policies create or worsen racial inequality.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race, Policy, and Ethics - Spanish with Audio Description
- Runtime
- 6:14
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Raza, política y ética
Whether as laws, principles, or cultural practices, policies guide collective action and influence social norms. Anti-racist policies enact purposeful and ethical actions to promote racial equity and justice for all people. Anti-racist policies enact purposeful and ethical actions that promote racial equity and justice for all people. This pillar addresses how formal and informal policies create or worsen racial inequality.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race, Policy, and Ethics - Spanish
- Runtime
- 3:48
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Raza, política y ética
Whether as laws, principles, or cultural practices, policies guide collective action and influence social norms. Anti-racist policies enact purposeful and ethical actions to promote racial equity and justice for all people. Anti-racist policies enact purposeful and ethical actions that promote racial equity and justice for all people. This pillar addresses how formal and informal policies create or worsen racial inequality.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race, Policy, and Ethics - English
- Runtime
- 3:13
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Whether as laws, principles, or cultural practices, policies guide collective action and influence social norms. Anti-racist policies enact purposeful and ethical actions to promote racial equity and justice for all people. Anti-racist policies enact purposeful and ethical actions that promote racial equity and justice for all people. This pillar addresses how formal and informal policies create or worsen racial inequality.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race Beyond the U.S. - Spanish with Audio Description
- Runtime
- 4:32
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Racial terminologies may change in different national contexts, but racism exists globally. This pillar acknowledges the global realities of racism and seeks to learn from international efforts toward truth and reconciliation. The concurrent and intertwined pandemics of COVID-19 and racism demand that we, as an international community, learn how to move forward together.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race Beyond the U.S. - English with Audio Description
- Runtime
- 3:45
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Racial terminologies may change in different national contexts, but racism exists globally. This pillar acknowledges the global realities of racism and seeks to learn from international efforts toward truth and reconciliation. The concurrent and intertwined pandemics of COVID-19 and racism demand that we, as an international community, learn how to move forward together.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race Beyond the U.S. - Spanish
- Runtime
- 3:17
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Racial terminologies may change in different national contexts, but racism exists globally. This pillar acknowledges the global realities of racism and seeks to learn from international efforts toward truth and reconciliation. The concurrent and intertwined pandemics of COVID-19 and racism demand that we, as an international community, learn how to move forward together.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race Beyond the U.S. - English
- Runtime
- 3:01
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Racial terminologies may change in different national contexts, but racism exists globally. This pillar acknowledges the global realities of racism and seeks to learn from international efforts toward truth and reconciliation. The concurrent and intertwined pandemics of COVID-19 and racism demand that we, as an international community, learn how to move forward together.
Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race, Arts, and Aesthetics - Spanish with Audio Description
- Runtime
- 4:39
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Race is more than individual identification. Our understandings of race and belonging are also publicly constructed and reinforced. Popular culture and shared public spaces can expose the tensions between what we see and who is represented. This pillar explores how public representations of race affect our understandings of history, ourselves, and each other.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race, Arts, and Aesthetics - English with Audio Description
- Runtime
- 3:50
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Race is more than individual identification. Our understandings of race and belonging are also publicly constructed and reinforced. Popular culture and shared public spaces can expose the tensions between what we see and who is represented. This pillar explores how public representations of race affect our understandings of history, ourselves, and each other.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race, Arts, and Aesthetics - English
- Runtime
- 2:56
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Race is more than individual identification. Our understandings of race and belonging are also publicly constructed and reinforced. Popular culture and shared public spaces can expose the tensions between what we see and who is represented. This pillar explores how public representations of race affect our understandings of history, ourselves, and each other.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race and Wellness - Spanish with Audio Description
- Runtime
- 4:06
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Racism is a public health threat that has traumatic effects on the physical, emotional, and mental health of individuals, families, and communities. Race and Wellness addresses the impact of racism on the wellbeing of individuals and communities. An equitable future is one where people of all races can not only live but live well.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race and Wellness - English with Audio Description
- Runtime
- 3:28
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Racism is a public health threat that has traumatic effects on the physical, emotional, and mental health of individuals, families, and communities. Race and Wellness addresses the impact of racism on the wellbeing of individuals and communities. An equitable future is one where people of all races can not only live but live well.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race and Wellness - Spanish
- Runtime
- 3:02
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Racism is a public health threat that has traumatic effects on the physical, emotional, and mental health of individuals, families, and communities. Race and Wellness addresses the impact of racism on the wellbeing of individuals and communities. An equitable future is one where people of all races can not only live but live well.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race and Place - English with Audio Description
- Runtime
- 3:12
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Historical and contemporary injustices have disproportionately exposed communities of color to deep-seated hazards like environmental toxicity, displacement, and violence. This pillar considers how race and racism have shaped access to safe, healthy public spaces and private living spaces.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race and Place - Spanish with Audio Description
- Runtime
- 4:16
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Historical and contemporary injustices have disproportionately exposed communities of color to deep-seated hazards like environmental toxicity, displacement, and violence. This pillar considers how race and racism have shaped access to safe, healthy public spaces and private living spaces.
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- Race and Place - Spanish
- Runtime
- 3:02
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Historical and contemporary injustices have disproportionately exposed communities of color to deep-seated hazards like environmental toxicity, displacement, and violence. This pillar considers how race and racism have shaped access to safe, healthy public spaces and private living spaces.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race and Place - English
- Runtime
- 2:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Historical and contemporary injustices have disproportionately exposed communities of color to deep-seated hazards like environmental toxicity, displacement, and violence. This pillar considers how race and racism have shaped access to safe, healthy public spaces and private living spaces.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race and Wealth - Spanish with Audio Description
- Runtime
- 3:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The racial wealth gap has knowable historical foundations. Rooted in almost 400 years of slavery, dispossession and ongoing prejudice, the reality of economic inequality is rooted in our everyday lives, from inheritances to housing to debates about reparations. This pillar addresses the origins, persistence, and growth of racial economic disparity.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race and Wealth - English with Audio Description
- Runtime
- 3:01
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The racial wealth gap has knowable historical foundations. Rooted in almost 400 years of slavery, dispossession and ongoing prejudice, the reality of economic inequality is rooted in our everyday lives, from inheritances to housing to debates about reparations. This pillar addresses the origins, persistence, and growth of racial economic disparity.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race and Wealth - Spanish
- Runtime
- 2:44
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The racial wealth gap has knowable historical foundations. Rooted in almost 400 years of slavery, dispossession and ongoing prejudice, the reality of economic inequality is rooted in our everyday lives, from inheritances to housing to debates about reparations. This pillar addresses the origins, persistence, and growth of racial economic disparity.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race and Wealth - English
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The racial wealth gap has knowable historical foundations. Rooted in almost 400 years of slavery, dispossession and ongoing prejudice, the reality of economic inequality is rooted in our everyday lives, from inheritances to housing to debates about reparations. This pillar addresses the origins, persistence, and growth of racial economic disparity.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Guided Tour - Utopia Project: Inspiration for Creative Activism
- Runtime
- 5:42
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The Utopia Project: Inspiration for Creative Activism seeks to deconstruct the reasons why social change happens. Why does one tactic work and another fails? This interactive gallery provided a space to learn the art of activism and to unlock the creativity in each of us to transform our world.
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- Guided Tour - ¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States
- Runtime
- 6:44
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- As the National Museum of the American Latino's premiere exhibition, ¡Presente! introduces visitors to key concepts, moments and biographies illuminating U.S. Latinos’ historical and cultural legacies. The exhibition also tells the stories of Latinas and Latinos who have shaped the United States. Indigenous freedom fighter Toypurina, Mexican American union leader César Chávez, Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente, Guatemalan labor organizer Luisa Moreno, Colombian American drag queen José Sarria and Cuban American singer Celia Cruz are some of the historical and contemporary figures featured in the exhibition. National Museum of the American Latino’s founding director Jorge Zamanillo and journalist Lulu García-Navarro introduce the inaugural exhibition and important key themes.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/r...
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- Guided Tour: Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
- Runtime
- 22:23
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience. looks at the ways in which visual art has long provided its own protest, commentary, escape, and perspective for African Americans. Reckoning is a testament to how artists and photographers have used their voice to pay tribute to those we have lost, lifting up names such as Eric Garner, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor at demonstrations and in communities online. The show journeys from defiance to resilience to grief and mourning, hope and change.
Visit the Exhibit: https://nmaahc.si.edu/reckoning
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Guided Tour: Americans - Indians Are Everywhere
- Runtime
- 10:33
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Americans highlights the ways in which American Indians have been part of the nation’s identity since before the country began. Pervasive, powerful, at times demeaning, the exhibition's images, names, and stories reveal the deep connection between Americans and American Indians as well as how Indians have been embedded in unexpected ways in the history, pop culture, and identity of the United States.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race, Arts, and Aesthetics - Spanish
- Runtime
- 3:20
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Race is more than individual identification. Our understandings of race and belonging are also publicly constructed and reinforced. Popular culture and shared public spaces can expose the tensions between what we see and who is represented. This pillar explores how public representations of race affect our understandings of history, ourselves, and each other.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Race and Wellness - English
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Racism is a public health threat that has traumatic effects on the physical, emotional, and mental health of individuals, families, and communities. Race and Wellness addresses the impact of racism on the wellbeing of individuals and communities. An equitable future is one where people of all races can not only live but live well.
Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past explores the history and legacy of race and racism in the United States and beyond. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
- Title
- Where do pollinators live at the Smithsonian? #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Spot cozy pollinator habitats, including meadows and logs, in our Smithsonian Gardens. Pollinators such as bees, butterflies, moths and beetles make life on Earth possible by moving pollen grains from one flower to another.
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- Silky anteater #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:22
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- This silky anteater hitches a ride to a safer perch. This nocturnal species is found on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island, home to the oldest active research station in the American tropics, our Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. #shorts
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- Guided Tour: Make Good the Promises - Reconstruction and Its Legacies
- Runtime
- 12:53
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- This exhibition focuses on the period following the Civil War—through an African American lens. The United States emerged from the Civil War fundamentally changed. For the first time, slavery did not legally exist within its borders. What this meant was the question before the nation. Would four million newly freed people be truly free to determine their own lives? Would the nation’s founding promises of liberty, equality, and justice be realized for all people, regardless of race? These were the questions of Reconstruction. They remain the challenges of today.
Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past Forum
- Runtime
- 1:28:38
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- View the first forum, originally aired on August 26, 2021
The first Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past forum was a virtual program about racial inequities in wellness and wealth in the U.S. From race science to COVID-19, physical and mental health, and challenges to wealth building, we explored how we arrived where we are today and how we can imagine a new way forward together. The forum is captioned in English and Spanish. We hope you enjoy the program and join us for future forums and events.
Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.si.edu/race
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- From "Our Divided Past" to "Our Shared Future" Museums & the Advancement of Equity & Understanding
- Runtime
- 1:02:33
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- View the program, originally aired on October 27, 2021.
The launch of the Smithsonian’s Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past initiative and the creation of two new museums by Congress; the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum and the National Museum of the American Latino, present unique moments to explore how museums can help foster courageous new will and promote opportunities for all.
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- This Lesbian Group Started In Secret and Changed History
- Runtime
- 2:01
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- The Daughters of Bilitis was a lesbian social club that transformed into a rights organization. They produced the first national lesbian publication, participated in public protests, and challenged the field of psychology’s misconceptions of homosexuality.
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- How Activist Grace Thorpe Protected Native Lands
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Grace Thorpe organized her community when she learned that several Native American tribes, including her Sac and Fox Nation, were considering allowing the government to store toxic nuclear waste materials on their lands.
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- El grupo de lesbianas que comenzó en secreto y cambió la historia
- Runtime
- 2:01
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Las Hijas de Bilitis era un club social para lesbianas que se convirtió en una organización de derechos. Publicaron la primera publicación nacional sobre el lesbianismo, participaron en demostraciones públicas y desafiaron los conceptos erróneos de la psicología sobre la homosexualidad.
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- Ginny Montes ayuda a guiar a la próxima generación de mujeres activistas
- Runtime
- 1:44
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Como secretaria de la Organización Nacional de Mujeres (NOW), Ginny Montes alentó a las mujeres a postularse para cargos políticos en todo el país a través de entrenamientos de liderazgo.
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- La activista Grace Thorpe protege las tierras indígenas
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Grace Thorpe organizó a su comunidad cuando se enteró que varias tribus nativas norteamericanas, incluyendo su tribu, la nación Sac y Fox, estaban considerando permitir que el gobierno almacenara desechos nucleares tóxicos en sus tierras.
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- How People with Disabilities Won the Right to Choose Their Own Homes
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson, two women with disabilities, won a case against the state of Georgia for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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- Las personas con discapacidad ganan el derecho a elegir su propio hogar
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Lois Curtis y Elaine Wilson, dos mujeres con discapacidades, ganaron un caso contra el estado de Georgia por violar la ley federal para las personas con discapacidad.
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- Patterns and Lines: The Colorful World of Alma Thomas
- Runtime
- 40:28
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- A family program for young learners about the artist Alma Thomas.
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- Our Shared Future: Reckoning With Our Racial Past - National Conversation on Race
- Runtime
- 1:19:43
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- “Our Shared Future: Reckoning With Our Racial Past,” the Smithsonian’s race initiative, is hosting a National Conversation on Race Thursday, Dec. 1, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture from 7-8:30 p.m.
This inaugural National Conversation on Race will bring together a group of panelists from diverse backgrounds to discuss how modern society deals with racism within the broader historical context of America’s complicated history and legacy of race. The conversation will delve into the impact that events of the past few years—ranging from the national protests in response to the murder of George Floyd to the COVID-19 pandemic—have had on society, and how these events will shape the ongoing legacy of race in the U.S.
NBC News correspondent Morgan Radford will moderate the discussion. It will focus on the panelists’ connections to these issues through their work and showcase their active participation in creating a more eq...
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- How does the Smithsonian digitize millions of plant specimens? #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:24
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- With a conveyor belt! In our largest digitization project, we used this system to digitize more than 3.8 million herbarium sheets from the National Museum of Natural History's collection, now available to all through Smithsonian Open Access.
Each specimen within the U.S. National Herbarium documents a species from a specific time and place. This data powers agricultural research, biodiversity studies, climate science studies, field conservation research, and more.
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- Yellow submarine does deep-sea research #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:31
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute scientists recently took 11 dives in a yellow vessel to an unexplored undersea mountain range off the coast of Panama. Some of what they saw: a possible new coral species, very rare prickly sharks, and 60 hammerheads.
#sharks
- Title
- Water Unites Us
- Runtime
- 3:37:36
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- OSTP and Smithsonian Institution Host Joint Event:
“Water Unites Us: A Celebration of Women & Girls of Color Who Lead In Science & Technology”
Friday, February 11, 2022 at 10:00 AM ET –2:00 PM ET
The event will be livestreamed at https://s.si.edu/WaterUnitesUs
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Deputy Director for Science and Society Dr. Alondra Nelson and Smithsonian Institution Under Secretary for Education Dr. Monique Chism will lead a virtual celebration of the role of Black, Indigenous, and other women and girls of color in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering. The event will also shine a light on organizations that have demonstrated leadership in providing opportunities for girls of color to enter and remain in the science and technology ecosystem. This event is designed to support, encourage, and inspire the curiosity and scientific interests of girls and women of color and provide resources and informatio...
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- How Ida B. Wells Got Women Voting (Narrated)
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Under the leadership of Ida B. Wells, the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago registered enough women voters to make change in Chicago's 2nd Ward.
Learn more women’s history with the Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, Because of Her Story creates, disseminates, and amplifies the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.
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- Black Women's Clubs Fought for Voting Rights (Narrated)
- Runtime
- 1:40
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- In the 1890s, African American women led by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin created the Women’s Era Club in Boston. They united and organized with other clubs across the U.S. to create the National Association of Colored Women. Together, they fought for voting rights and education across the country.
Learn more women’s history with the Smithsonian: https://womenshistory.si.edu
Drawing on the Smithsonian’s unique and vast resources, Because of Her Story creates, disseminates, and amplifies the historical record of the accomplishments of American women.
