Tag Archives: Duke Ellington
New Museum Ensures Black History is Part of the American Story
Black Enterprise is on hand for the groundbreaking of a new museum dedicated to African American history and culture
Barack Obama, Calvin Butts and others take part in groundbreaking for National Museum of African…
By Derek T. Dingle
March 2, 2012
Tags: Barack Obama, Calvin Butts, Civil Rights Movement, Denyce Graves, Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, Duke Ellington, Florence Price, George W. Bush, Heritage Signature Chorale, Jason Moran, John Lewis, Laura Bush, Linda Johnson Rice, Lonnie G. Bunch, Michelle Obama, National Museum of African American History & Culture, Phylicia Rashad, Richard Parsons, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Washington Monument
Duke Ellington Honored on D.C. Quarter
Jazz great depicted on U.S. coin
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington has done something that no other African American has ever done.…
By Deborah Creighton Skinner
February 24, 2009
Tags: currency, Duke Ellington, United States Mint
