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How the Smithsonian spotlights Black history through photography

NPR’s Walter Ray Watson recently spoke to Smithsonian curator Aaron Bryant about Black photography and history.

Bryant is a curator of visual culture at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. He focused on a couple of images from Harlem, part of the Smithsonian’s collection.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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