picturedept:

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PICTURE DEPT is a new venue for photography presented by the award-winning Newsweek & The Daily Beast photo teams. As photo sharing has exploded online with services like Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and others, there has never been more content available for viewing. But as more great, new photography venues are created, it is increasingly hard to keep up with the seemingly endless stream—and to find the very best of what’s out there. PICTURE DEPT is designed to both filter and condense this information into a single resource. The site includes curated photo features and recommendations of the best of what is happening in photography—not just from Newsweek & The Daily Beast but also from Tumblr, around the Web, and the world beyond the computer screen.

About the name:

When we decided to create a photo Tumblr, we turned to the amazing Newsweek archives for inspiration, and there we discovered a battered metal box that contained hundreds of faded yellow 4 x 6 note cards. On each card was the date of an issue of the magazine and the complete listing of its photo spreads. And they were all titled “PICTURE DEPT”, the original moniker of the photo department. The cards ranged in date from the 1930’s - 1970’s and reminded us of the amazing legacy of the magazine. So we decided to resurrect Picture Dept for the 21st century. 

Awesome. This is going to be great, in the spirit of the Lively Morgue, but with even more community engagement. Congrats guys!

nwkarchivist:

Dr. Martin Luther King Was Assassinated On This Date In 1968

He was, more than any single man, the voice and the instrument of the second American revolution.  He materialized out of the streets and the Jim Crow churches of the South a dozen years ago, preaching brotherhood and nonviolence to a divided and violent land.  For a time, incredibly, it worked- until the very forces he had helped set in in motion swept past him and turned the black ghettos of America into battlegrounds.  Yet King never gave up, and he was trying to prove his way would work again when a white assassin cut him down last week in Memphis- and dealt a perilous wound to the American soul.

Newsweek April 15, 1968

pbsthisdayinhistory:

APRIL 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated

Forty-four years ago, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee.

Watch this American Experience clip of King describing the teachings of the nonviolence movement.

King also shares his thoughts on Malcolm X’s criticism and President Kennedy’s strides to help the Civil Rights Movement.

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usnatarchives:

Just 13 days until the online release of the 1940 Census!

The original caption reads:”New York City’s Sixth Avenue elevated railway and the crowded street below, ca. 1940.”

According the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of New York City was 7.5 million in 1940, making NYC the most populous city at that time. It remains at the top even today, with the 2010 census showing over 8 million inhabitants.

On Saturday March 24 in New York City, you can get ready for the 1940 Census with expert guest speakers, including our own Connie Potter and Dr. Groves of the U.S. Census Bureau. The program is free but requires registration.

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shortformblog:

Hillary Clinton digs into mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance: Clinton will meet today with a group that’s launching a new effort to try to find Earhart’s plane wreckage. Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan went missing in 1937 off the remote island of Nikumaroro, in what’s now the nation of Kiribati. source

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The only possible improvement to this news would be the announcement that Nancy Drew and Harriet the Spy were going to assist Hillary Clinton in her investigation.

The Martin Luther King, Jr., Center, devoted to nonviolent social change, released on its website today some 200,000 never-before-seen documents from King’s life, including his transcript from Harvard, correspondence with President Kennedy, scribbled notes, telegrams, photographs, letters from his wife, and so on.

It’s laid out beautifully and is pretty amazing to see.

RAGING. In which Snoop Dogg reflects on history, including, but definitely not limited to: the Challenger space-shuttle disaster (his advice: “test drive a motherfucka”); Woodstock (“Woodstock. That was special. Shoulda been there.”) and various other out-of-control things.

oldnewyork:

Occupied Columbia University, Spring 1968