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A Member of the Cuban Marielito Community
A member of the Cuban Marielito community on a park bench across the street from the church, 1984. The Mariel boatlift brought tens of thousands of Cuban exiles to the United States in 1980.
Tags: ward 1, immigration, Cuba, history, columbia heights, unitarian, all souls church
Museum of the Caribbean Diaspora
This website/digital archive, houses interview clips collected by the Institute of Caribbean Studies to document the experience of Caribbean immigrants and their descendants in the Washington, DC area. The videos are embedded in the records from a…
Tags: immigration, history, website, caribbean, digital humanities, archive, repository
Of Shrines, Talking Drums & Religioius Chants: Santería in DC
This panel discussion and performance brought together scholars and practitioners of Santería, a religion with cultural origins in West African and the Caribbean. Participants discussed the persistence of Santería as a cultural…
Portraits of a Community - Soul of the City 2010
This film documents the 2010 Soul of the City program during which participants learned about the Vietnamese, Ethiopian, and Salvadoran communities in Washington, DC. The students used a performance style called "Playback Theater" to help them…
2010 Big Read Panel Discussion for Screening of "Sentenced Home"
In 2010, the Humanities Council of Washington, DC sponsored a public screening of the film, "Sentenced Home", as part of a series on Juvenile Justice related to that year's Big Read novel. Following the screening, the Council held a moderated public…
The Stone Carvers
This Academy Award-winning documentary captures the artistic and cultural contributions of the stone carvers who worked for decades to complete the Washington National Cathedral. Through a series of informal and formal oral history interviews, the…
Humanities Profiled: Frank Wu with Ethelbert Miller
Frank H. Wu joined the faculty of the Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. in 1995. He teaches in the clinical law program and also teaches traditional courses such as civil procedure and federal courts. He supervises students who…
