{"id":24393,"date":"2025-11-04T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24393\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:21:08","slug":"afrofuturism-exhibit-comes-to-african-american-museum-in-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24393\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrofuturism exhibit comes to African American Museum in Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>As America celebrates its <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/series\/philadelphia-250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">250th birthday in 2026<\/a>, the African American Museum in Philadelphia will also be celebrating its milestone of 50 years featuring Ruth E. Carter\u2019s exhibit titled \u201cAfrofuturism in Costume Design.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ashley Jordan, the museum\u2019s president and CEO, spoke during a press viewing to highlight the exhibit last Friday. \u201cThis magnificent show kicks off our 50th anniversary celebrating 50 years of culture, legacy, hope, history, everything that is the best of Philadelphia\u2019s story is right here in this location,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Making its Philadelphia debut, the exhibit will display various aspects of <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/oscars-2023-everything-everywhere-best-picture-top-moments-academy-awards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carter\u2019s<\/a> 40-year career as a designer. Displays will include Carter\u2019s first sewing machine, designs, sketches, visual inspirations and 80 of Carter\u2019s original costume designs from various films throughout her career, from her early work on Spike Lee\u2019s \u201cDo the Right Thing\u201d and \u201cMalcolm X\u201d to her most recent work from \u201cBlack Panther\u201d and its sequel, \u201cWakanda Forever.\u201d The exhibit will also display her costumes from the 2025 film \u201cSinners,\u201d directed by Ryan Coogler.\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10531,16180,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-24393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-african-american-museum-in-philadelphia","tag-afrofuturism","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}