14th Secretary of the @Smithsonian, founding director of @NMAAHC, author, historian, film lover, New Jersey born and bred. https://xitter.cf/t.co/JLlG22c0Vk
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![A designed graphic with black and yellow triangular elements. In the top left corner is the white logo for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture. In the middle on the bottom are the words [CELEBRATING JAMES BALDWIN'S 100TH BIRTHDAY: HIS LEGACY AND INFLUENCE ON LITERATURE, FILM, AND THEATER | Thursday, July 25, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM.] To the right is a black-and-white photograph of James Baldwin with a read [WATCH ONLINE] button.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTbOPLGWkAA8Icw.jpg?name=orig)
ALT A designed graphic with black and yellow triangular elements. In the top left corner is the white logo for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture. In the middle on the bottom are the words [CELEBRATING JAMES BALDWIN'S 100TH BIRTHDAY: HIS LEGACY AND INFLUENCE ON LITERATURE, FILM, AND THEATER | Thursday, July 25, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM.] To the right is a black-and-white photograph of James Baldwin with a read [WATCH ONLINE] button.
![A designed graphic featuring a black and white colored headshot image of James Baldwin. His right hand is placed on his left should. He’s wearing a ring on the middle finger of his right hand. The background of the graphic is mustard yellow with a black angled portion in the top left corner that is black. The top left corner contains a white logo image of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The text under the image lists the event title: [Celebrating James Baldwin’s 100th Birthday: His Legacy and Influence on Modern Writers] and the text under the event title lists the event date: [Thursday, July 25, 7:00pm-8:00pm].](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSjqJ1FWEAEObbj.jpg?name=orig)
ALT A designed graphic featuring a black and white colored headshot image of James Baldwin. His right hand is placed on his left should. He’s wearing a ring on the middle finger of his right hand. The background of the graphic is mustard yellow with a black angled portion in the top left corner that is black. The top left corner contains a white logo image of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The text under the image lists the event title: [Celebrating James Baldwin’s 100th Birthday: His Legacy and Influence on Modern Writers] and the text under the event title lists the event date: [Thursday, July 25, 7:00pm-8:00pm].
ALT Graphic showing Smithsonian sunburst logo and text National Education Summit July 16-18. Online and Washington DC. Photo on right of three adults, two smiling, one seen from behind.
ALT A sea lion poses for the camera in the waters off of California. Image credit: Claire Fackler, NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries
ALT A sunset viewed from Kure Atoll, located near Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. An atoll is an island of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely. Photo credit: NOAA’s National Ocean Service
ALT Coral reef at Palmyra Atoll. Credit: USFWS.
ALT A color photograph of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. standing in a crowd of mostly children as he receives a hug from his son, Martin Luther III. King's mother Alberta looks on from behind the group.
ALT A color photograph from December 1964 of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. standing next to a man in a suit and tie surrounded by a group of onlookers. Both hold up King's Nobel Peace Prize with both hands. His wife Coretta Scott King is partially visible behind the two men.
ALT A color photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his wife Coretta Scott King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy leading a group of marchers toward Alabama's state capitol in Montgomery on March 21, 1965. A row of cars and trucks are visible on to the left of the marchers, and a marcher a few rows behind the Kings holds up a large blue flag.
ALT A black and white photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing a crowd at Chicago's Solider Field in 1966. He stands behind a podium and a choir of mounted microphones.
ALT Black and white photo of five adults next to a museum display case, clustered closely together and smiling. They are Jean Stapleton, Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, Norman Lear, Sally Struthers and Rob Reiner as they peer into the case where the chairs are displayed.
ALT Two fabric-covered living room chairs (the left one a light blonde color, the one on right a medium brown color) with a wooden crescent-shaped side table in between. On the table is a can of beer and an ashtray.
ALT Seated portrait of a woman in side left profile. She wears jurors robes and her hands at clasped in her lap.