The Smithsonian's Annual "Marine Science in the Morning" Lecture Series Returns to the St. Lucie County Aquarium January 24 wqcs.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wqcs.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Here’s what you should check out this week:
Lady Day:
The United States vs. Billie Holiday looks at the legendary blues singer’s fight to sing “Strange Fruit.” The song’s painful and powerful response to lynching was so controversial that the government, particularly the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, harrassed Holiday to silence her from performing it. The new film, which comes out on Hulu on February 26, was written by renowned playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and directed by Lee Daniels (
Precious,
The Butler). Both Parks and Daniels will join a virtual panel discussion about Holiday and the film hosted by the National Museum of African American History & Culture. Monday 2/22 at 7 PM; Free, register here.
January 28th, 2021, 6:00AM / BY Anna Torres
Celebrate the Mayan New Year with a Mayan astronomy webinar in Spanish and more in February’s lineup of virtual programs from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. ( El Castillo (Pyramid of Kukulcán) in Chichén Itzá by Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0)
A virtual science café, an online lecture on coral reproduction and a Mayan Astronomy webinar in Spanish; stream these free programs and more this February through the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
How Beetles Adapted to Survive
Feb. 3, 1 p.m. ET Discover the dazzling diversity of beetles with Entomologist Floyd Shockley in a National Museum of Natural History program streaming Feb. 3. (Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian)