Last month , the Smithsonian Institution ’s National Museum of African American History and Culture ( NMAAHC ) set in motion “ Voices Of Resistance And Hope , ” a World Wide Web portal where fellow member of grim communities can share their experience of life during thecoronavirus pandemicand theBlack Lives Mattermovement .
AsTravel + Leisurereports , those experience can be in just about any format you need . First - hand account , personal stories , essay , poems , and observance are all mentioned on the portal as potential submissions , but you ’re not confined to the written word ; image and telecasting Indian file are admit , too , so you’re able to also mail in photos or footage taken during objection , for example , or even original medicine and digital artwork inspire by this moment in America ’s history . Your content must have a rubric and a category designation — COVID-19 , quarantine , self - reflection , or social fermentation — but you ’re allow to enter your name as “ Anonymous ” and make up one’s mind whether themuseumcan get hold of you about your submission .
“ Your personal expressions can aid to make shared experience with others in the Carry Amelia Moore Nation and reinforce what so many of us are longing for during these troubled meter — an chance to celebrate the American values of resiliency , optimism , and spirituality , ” the portal read .
The campaign is host by the NMAAHC ’s Robert F. Smith Fund Community Curation Platform , an onlinelanding sitewhere you could explore all the submissions . There are vintage household photos , diary entries about masses ’s personal experience at protest marches , and even aletterthat The Quaker Oats Company sent to a student who reached out about their controversialAunt Jemimalogo … in 1968 .
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