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Digging into our Roots!


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Searching for Your Roots
This event is full. However, please join us via webcast at nmaahc.si.edu/Events/SearchingforYourRoots.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. Photo by Jeffrey Dunn
Thursday, September 12, 2013 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
We share a basic drive to discover our own personal stories that explain who we are — and where we come from. In the 2012 PBS series, Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explored “the DNA of American culture.” Gates enlisted his own corps of discovery — leading genealogists, geneticists, and ancestry genetic testing companies — to uncover the ancestry of celebrities in each episode. This very team has been busy tracing the genetic histories of tonight’s guests, the Smithsonian’s own Lonnie Bunch, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Washington Week’s Gwen Ifill. Gates will reveal their ancestral backgrounds, discovered through historical records and genomic data, live on stage. Ifill and Bunch will explore the results and comment on what they’ve learned.
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After the ancestral reveal, the program continues with a discussion on the promise and limitations of genomic research and ancestral inference genetic testing. Panelists include:
Aravinda Chakravarti, professor, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University;
Charmaine Royal, faculty, Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, and associate research professor, Department of African and African American Studies, Duke University;
Joanna Mountain, senior director of research, 23andMe.
The panel moderator is Vence Bonham, associate investigator, National Human Genome Research Institute. A question-and-answer session with the audience follows.
Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
For more information, email NMAAHCPROGRAMS@si.edu.
 
Presented in partnership with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Museum of Natural History, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture Holiday Concert …


National Museum of African American History and Culture

Upcoming Events at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
The National Museum of African American History and Culture Holiday Concert
Heritage Signature Chorale The Heritage Signature Chorale

Sunday, December 18, 2011, 4:00 to 6:00 PM National Museum of Natural History Baird Auditorium 10th Street and Constitution Ave, NW Washington, DC Metro: Smithsonian or Federal Triangle
Stanley J. Thurston Stanley J. Thurston Stanley J. Thurston leads the renowned Heritage Signature Chorale as they perform holiday favorites and classics.This event is free and open to the public on a first-come, first seated basis.Please call 202/633-0070 for more information.
SAVE THE DATE!
The Loving Story Movie Poster

The Loving Story: A Screening and Panel Discussion Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 7:00 to 9:00 PM Smithsonian American Art Museum National Portrait Gallery – McEvoy Auditorium 7th and G Streets, NW Washington, DC Metro: Gallery Place

The Loving Story, a documentary film directed by Nancy Buirski, investigates the lives of Mildred and Richard P. Loving, a black woman and white man who struggled to live as a married couple in the state of Virginia where, in 1958, interracial marriage was against the law. The Loving Story is co-produced by HBO Documentary Films and will be broadcast on HBO in February, 2012. A panel discussion including the film’s director and legal scholars will follow the screening. The film has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Because democracy demands wisdom.

Admission is free and on a first come, first serve basis.
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RACE: Are we so different? …National Museum of African American History and Culture


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June 18, 2011 – January 2, 2012.
National Museum of Natural History

Lonnie Bunch, National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) director will moderate a discussion on how the museum will treat issues of race.

Panelists include Clement A. Price, PhD, Rutgers University, Nell Irvin Painter, Professor of History emerita, Princeton University and author of The History of White People, Creating Black America, and Southern History Across the Color Line and Mia Bay, PhD, professor at Rutgers University. Professor Bay is the author of two books: To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells and The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925.

This program is part of the Smithsonian-wide conversation about race. The exhibition RACE: Are We So Different? will be at the National Museum of Natural History June 18, 2011 – January 2, 2012.

Books will be available for sale and signing at the program.

For more information please call (202) 633-0070

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