Protesters march down Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE during the 2017 Grocery Walk to demand greater investment in food access programs and healthy food retail options. To highlight the lack of grocery options in Wards 7 and 8, over 500 people marched the two-mile journey between Historic Anacostia and Ward 8’s only grocery store. Credit: Brian Oh/Courtesy of DC Greens
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is inviting the public, Smithsonian National Zoo members and Zoo Guardians players to name three black-footed ferret kits born May 19 in Front Royal, Virginia.
Photo credit: Victoria Lake, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
“Futures We Dream” filmmakers from left to right: Jessica Jones, Mark Strandquist, Pamela Yates, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, Leena Jayaswal, Ben Alex-Dupris, Sally Rubin, Ashley York, Mike Attie
Inland Niger Delta artist; Djenné, Mopti Region, Mali; Equestrian Figure; 13th-15th century C.E.; Ceramic; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, museum purchase, 86-12-2; Photograph by Franko Khoury.
: Artist rendering of the future “Destination Moon” exhibition, scheduled to open at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., in 2022. Credit: Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
Artist rendering of the future “Thomas W. Haas We All Fly” gallery at the National Air and Space Museum, scheduled to open in 2022. Credit: Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
