Kwanzaa may not start until Dec. 26, but local Black-led organizations around the D.C. region are starting the celebrations earlier in the month.

The exhibition “A Right To The City” is being broken up into mini-exhibits at six libraries.

The museum’s main exhibition on gentrification will be split into mini-exhibits and displayed at public libraries until the museum reopens in October.

Check out punk music and urban farming at the Hamiltonian, lobster and calypso at the Phillips Collection, and more.

American University’s summer shows can’t be missed, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival is back, and more.

This month the area’s museums are chock full of celebrations, openings, anniversaries and festivals. Enough to keep your dance card filled and your brain active. >> The Natural History Museum describes the ocean as “a huge, awesome realm — sometimes mysterious but always amazing.” Their interpretation of the “awesome realm” will be shown in the long awaited opening of the Sant Ocean Hall on September 27. The exhibit represents the largest renovation in the…

The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum will be holding a special lecture on the environment tomorrow at 7 p.m. as part of its 23rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. program. Robert D. Bullard, the Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, will present his lecture, Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities and Environmental Justice Twenty-Five Years After Warren County, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History…