Selected Talks
Rhea Combs & Greg Tate: In Conversation with Milford Graves
Ars Nova Workshop, January 21, 2021
New Black Aesthetics
Duke Franklin Humanities Institute, January 17, 2020
Best in Heritage: Telling the Full American Story, Croatia
"Telling the Full American Story" - presentation of the American Alliance of Museums Chair's Leadership Award 2017 winner, by Rhea L. Combs, the Supervisory Museum Curator for Photography and Film at the NMAAHC
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The Cinema Meeting black-Brazil, Africa, Caribbean and Other Diasporas
Rio de Janiero, Brazil, October 2019
Original Thinkers Festival, Telluride
Unearthing Culture, October 3 - 7, 2019
Newly Discovered Black History Photographs
New York Times photo editor Darcy Eveleigh and journalist Rachel Swarns talked about their book Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives.
The Smithsonian Associates, December 11, 2017
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The Burial of Kojo
Q&A with Rhea L. Combs and filmmaker Blitz Bazawule.
National Museum of African American History and Culture, 5 April 2019
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I AM SOMEBODY
Discussion Madeline Anderson and Rhea L. Combs.
National Museum of African American History and Culture, 25 October, 2018
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Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo
In conversation with Rhea L. Combs.
National Museum of African American History and Culture, (29 November, 2017)
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The Power of the Image
AIGA Design Conference, 17 October, 2017
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