LCP in the News: A new exhibit at LCP focuses on ‘ordinary creativity’ of African Americans in early Philadelphia

A photo of an unidentified young African American woman is deeply creased as if it were folded and carried around by someone who valued it. It is part of an exhibit at the Library Company of Philadelphia called “Negro Pasts and Afro-futures.” (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Jasmine Smith, LCP African American history subject specialist, holds a rare trading card type photo of abolitionist speaker Sojourner Truth.

Bobbi I. Booker’s review of the Library Company’s current exhibition, From Negro Pasts to Afro-Futures: Black Creative Re-Imaginings, with an interview of Dr. Deirdre Cooper-Owens.

A new exhibit at LCP focuses on ‘ordinary creativity’ of African Americans in early Philadelphia

By Bobbi I. Booker