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Image Credit: Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems, 2018. Cover design: Kyle G. Hunter. Cover Art: Jie Zhao/Corbis News/Getty Images.

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Words from a Poet Laureate
Image Credit: Kevin and Valerie Pourier (Oglala Lakota), “Winyan Wánakikśin” (“Women Defenders of Others”) Buffalo Horn Belt, 2018. (NMAI 27/0215)

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Object of the Month: Buffalo Horn Belt
Image Credit (top): Constance Stuart Larrabee (left) and friend photographing among Ndebele women, near Pretoria, South Africa, 1936

All photos courtesy Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Photographing Africa: A Woman’s View
Image Credit: Ronda Ann Gregorio

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Celebrating American Women's History
Image Credit: Courtesy of the Bellak Family

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Renia Spiegel: Poland’s Anne Frank
Image Credit: Transfer from Library of Congress

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Object of the Month: Suffrage Bluebird
Image Credit: Bruce Guthrie

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American Art: A Feminist Lens
Image Credit: Headshot of Gail Anderson taken by Declan Van Welie

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Gail Anderson
A Lifetime in Design
Image Credit: Macmillan Publishers

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For Colored Girls in Politics

Words from a Poet Laureate