Brett Zongker, Associated PressHomeJudge Approves Merger of Corcoran Gallery of ArtOne of the nation’s oldest museums and its art college will be allowed to merge with two larger institutions.August 18, 2014Faculty & StaffJudge: Students, Staff Can Oppose Corcoran MergerThe Corcoran’s board is seeking to merge the museum founded in 1869 and its college with George Washington University and the National Gallery of Art after years of financial shortfalls and daunting renovation needs.July 21, 2014HBCUsKennedy Center Arts Training Program Moving to UMDWASHINGTON—An arts management training program at the Kennedy Center that’s funded by one of the center’s largest donations will move to the University of Maryland next year.November 20, 2013StudentsNAACP Preparing Committee to Search for New CEOThe NAACP’s board is forming a search committee to find the next president and CEO for the nation’s largest civil rights organization, its chairwoman said Monday.September 9, 2013African-AmericanEmory Professor Natasha Trethewey Named 19th U.S. Poet LaureatePulitzer prize-winner Natasha Trethewey, an English and creative writing professor at Emory University in Atlanta, has been named the 19th U.S. poet laureate.June 12, 2012African-AmericanThurgood Marshall’s Legacy Takes Center Stage in WashingtonDrawing upon an extraordinary legal career and an affiliation with Howard University, the one-man play “Thurgood”, starring actor Laurence Fishburne, has opened in the nation’s capital where much of the heroic life of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall unfolded.June 8, 2010African-AmericanTemple University Benefactor Donates Harriet Tubman Items to SmithsonianTourists will be able to see some rare, personal belongings of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman when an African-American history museum opens on the National Mall. This week, historian Charles L. Blockson donated about 40 objects from Tubman’s life to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.March 11, 2010Page 1 of 1
