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Still.....in Harlem #Harlem #NYC #Subway #Uptown #streetphotography #🔴📷 @mrtonymobley #leica #leicam10 #50summilux (at Harlem)

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Walk on by 🚶‍♂️#soho . . . #🔴📷 @mrtonymobley #TMOPhotography #leica #leicam10 #nyc #streetphotography #monochrome #bnw #smoker #smoking (at New York, New York)

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#notetoself : Lotion legs to start the day #onlyinnyc #nyc #pennstation #manhattan . . #🔴📷 @TMO365 #TMOPhotography #leica #leicam10 #streetphotography (at 34th Street–Penn Station)

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Harlem proud 🤔 #leicam10

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125th St..... 👈🏾 way. 2/24/18

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Happy #MLKDay ... the dream is still alive. Young 👑 🙌🏾 • • #mlk #martinlutherkingjr #🔴📷 @TMO365 #TMOPhotography #leica #leicaq #southeast #washingtondc #igersdc

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Remembering the iconic Stuart Scott on this day. 🙏🏾

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Amen. Great post.

Treating Everyone With Respect

GM ☀️🙏, Thanking my Lord and Savor for allowing me to have life this day, if I had 10,000 tongues it wouldn’t be enough to say how thankful and grateful I truly am. Father I now come before you continually asking for prayers, blessing, understanding and comfort for those families and individuals who are in the midst of the storms, trials and tribulation of life. I ask you to continued to guide, direct and cover us all with your divine Grace and Mercy. In Jesus name I pray Amen and Amen. Treating Everyone With Respect! (Just a reminder) Daily Scripture Reading 📖: Romans 12:16 (NIV), 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. Explanation and Important: “Many people use their contacts and relationships for selfish ambition. They select those people who will help them climb the social ladder. Christ demonstrated and taught that we should treat all people with respect—those of a different race, the handicapped, the poor, young and old, male and female. We must never consider others as being beneath us. Paul says we need to live in harmony with others and not be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people. Are you able to do humble tasks with others? Do you welcome conversation with unattractive, non-prestigious people? Are you willing to befriend newcomers and entry-level people? Or do you relate only to those who will help you get ahead. @TheHomeyJH (Twitter)

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AAAM 2017: The Voice of the Black Museums Movement

Before the 1960s, majority-run museums, like the media and schools, generally ignored or demeaned African American history and culture. Individual black collectors had preserved objects that documented black achievements and experiences, but there were few public displays of the material. 

In the late 1960s, Dr. Margaret Burroughs, founder of the DuSable Museum in Chicago, and Dr. Charles H. Wright of the Museum of African American History in Detroit initiated a series of conferences for Black museums. The National Association of Museums and Cultural Organizations and the Black Museums Conference, the first informal Black museum association, evolved from these conferences. In 1978, a consortium of six Black Museums, with funding from the National Museum Act (administered by the Smithsonian Institution), presented a series of conferences at participating institutions. The conferences provided the opportunity to lay the groundwork for yet another organization. Under the chairmanship of E. Barry Gaither, the committee prepared by-laws, which were ratified in Detroit in February of 1978. The new organization adopted the name “African American Museums Association” (AAMA), and elected its first governing council. AAMA’s first office was at the Museum of the National Center for Afro-American Artists in Boston, Massachusetts.

Know known as the Association of African American Museums (AAAM), the AAAM has focused on identifying the composition and needs of its constituents and the larger African American museum community, aided by the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) on the number of projects to survey the field and implement strategic planning process for the Association.

Our Museum is honored to host the AAAMs 39th Annual Conference from July 31–Aug. 4th. This conference brings together over 500 leaders of African American and African-descent museums and cultural centers from across the country, the Caribbean and Latin America to engage in a series of academic sessions, speakers, authors’ dialogues and visits to cultural institutions around the Washington area.

Learn more about the 39th Annual AAAM conference: bit.ly/2vf8ivU

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What Kind Of Joy Do You Display

GM ☀️😊, Just amazing the Lord has allowed me to see another day!

What kind of joy do you display?

Daily Scripture Reading 📖: Psalm 4:7 (NIV), 7 Fill my heart with joy when their grain and new wine abound. (Related text: Ac 14:17; Isa 9:3)

Explanation and Important: Two kinds of joy are contrasted here, inward joy that comes from knowing and trusting God and happiness that comes as a result of pleasant circumstances. Inward joy is steady as long as we trust God; happiness is unpredictable. Inward joy defeats discouragement; happiness covers it up. Inward joy is lasting; happiness is temporary.

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A Peoples Journey: Black Leisure Traditions

Photo:  Hot fun in the summertime, 1980, © Jamel Shabazz. 

Kicking off the summer with #APeoplesJourney to pools, BBQs and family reunions! From the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, African Americans around the country sought leisure destinations where they could relax without the burden of racial oppression.

Photo: The Way of Life of the Northern Negro: Untitled Photograph of father and son at Lake Michigan 1946-1948, © Wayne F. Miller.

Photo: Outdoor Portrait of a Family Standing by a Picnic Table, H.C. Anderson.

Photo:  ©1955 Travelguide, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 

Join us this month, as we amplify and explore black leisure traditions in the United States. And all month long, share with us your memories of the summer with #APeoplesJourney!

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World War 2: How the Men of the USS Mason Helped to Integrate the U.S. Military

Photo: Negro sailors of the USS MASON commissioned at Boston Navy Yard 20 March 1944 proudly look over their ship which is first to have predominantly Negro crew, 1943 - 1958, National Archives and Records Administration.

The men of the USS Mason made history during World War II as our nation’s first ship manned by a predominantly black crew.

Launched on November 17, 1943, the Evarts-class destroyer escort carried an enlisted crew of 160 serving under Lt. Commander William M. Blackford and five other white officers. Prior to the Mason, black men in the Navy had been limited to support roles such as cooks, stewards, and laborers, and even had to wear different uniforms than those worn by other sailors. The commissioning of the Mason came about as a result of intense pressure from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and others to integrate the armed forces.

But the transition wasn’t easy, with the Mason’s crew forced to confront intense racism in the naval ranks and a widespread belief that the “social experiment” would fail. The men of the Mason responded to the hostility and doubts by performing their duty, which often times was dangerous, with extraordinary bravery and dedication. Their exploits, escorting supply ships and intercepting German U-boat messages in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, were chronicled by African American journalist Thomas W. Young, who was commissioned by the Navy as a war correspondent aboard the Mason.

Photo: USS Mason (DE-529) off the U.S. Atlantic coast east of Boston, Massachusetts (position 42-23N, 69-07W), 28 August 1944. Photographed from a blimp of squadron ZP-11. Starboard broadside aerial view, August 28 1944,  NHV Photo #: 80-G-245458 via http://www.navsource.org/archives/06/529.htm,  US Navy Employee.

The Mason’s story might have remained lost to history if not for the efforts of a small but determined group that included the Destroyer Escort Sailors Association, the USS Mason Association, Congressman Charles Rangel and author Mary Pat Kelly, whose book Proudly We Served helped bring attention to the men of the Mason. In 2004, the book was made into the movie Proud, starring renowned actor and activist Ossie Davis in his final film role as Signalman Second Class Lorenzo DuFau, the last surviving member of the Mason crew.

The growing clamor to recognize the contributions of the men of the Mason resulted in the Navy finally awarding the long-delayed commendation to surviving crewmembers in 1995. And in 2003, the Navy commissioned a new ship in honor of the heroes of the Mason the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Mason, the only U.S. Navy ship ever named for a crew––whose motto is “Proudly We Serve.”

Photo: Persian Gulf (Jan. 2, 2005) — The guided missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG-87) patrols the Northern Persian Gulf. Mason is on her first deployment to the Persian Gulf as part of the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) Carrier Strike Group, to support coalition efforts in the Global War on Terrorism,  2 January 2005,  United States Navy, Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Peter J. Carney.

The courage and commitment of the Mason’s crew helped pave the way for the integration of the armed forces by President Harry S. Truman in 1948. By countering the prevailing notions of black inferiority, the men of the Mason helped to win both the battle against the Axis powers and the battle at home against racism and discrimination. This notion was enshrined in the Double V (for “Double Victory”) Campaign, a national effort that called on African Americans to give their all to win a victory overseas, while calling for a victory for equal rights in the U.S.

Search our collection to see objects related to World War 2: s.si.edu/2riNFx6

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#Message - Take care of the planet....🌍 #EarthDay #MarchForScience today in D.C. #🔴📷 @TMO365 #leica #leicam (at Washington Monument National Monument)

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Steeped in the word. @jbsportscaster @alfredstreetbc #GoodFriday #HolyFriday #forevergrateful 🙏🏾 . #🔴📷 @TMO365 #TMOPhotography #leica #leicam #ASBC (at Alfred Street Baptist Church)

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True success is defined by ones hard work and dedication to their craft when there's "no" screaming fans or flashing lights. Creating in a space void of distraction where the mind is clear to think and be free. @raheem_devaughn 🎙❤️👑 . . #🔴📷 @TMOImages #TMOPhotography #leica #leicam #studio #studiolife #raheemdevaughn

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"God can use you wherever your are. In the streets, club, crack house, anywhere. God is everywhere." - @crystalaegeanb 🙏🏾 . #🔴📷 @TMO365 #TMOPhotography #leica #leicq #bnw #vsco #portraits #muse

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Gone are the days when we had neighbors who literally "looked out", kept us abreast and surveyed the "block". Watched out for the kids & women & kept a watchful eye on the strangers. My man Big Daddy aka "Nesto" last of a dying breed that possess that true "hood" vigil. #NW #WashingtonDC 🙌🏾 #PuertoRico 🇵🇷 . . #🔴📷 @TMO365 #TMOPhotography #leica #leicam (at Petworth, Washington, D.C.)