I had the pleasure of joining with other Daughters from across the country to attend the celebrations of the Reopening of the Marian Anderson Museum and Historical Society in Philadelphia, PA. After 5 long years of repair following a 2020 flood, during which the National Society assisted through gifting funds

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the unveiling of the Marian Anderson commemorative stamp. On January 27, 2005, at the invitation of the United States Postal Service and the family of Marian Anderson, DAR co-hosted the unveiling of a commemorative U.S. postage stamp honoring the operatic and concert star

I was so honored to join with other DAR members on June 8 in Philadelphia, PA, for a historic celebration as The Philadelphia Orchestra rededicated its home at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in honor of the legendary contralto and civil rights icon Marian Anderson.

We were touched

It’s that time of year when we will soon be opening the DAR scholarship portal on November 1. Our National Chair of the DAR Scholarship Committee will be giving you more information in an upcoming blog post in just a couple of days, but today I wanted to highlight one

I was inspired to learn even more about Marian Anderson – and her courageous determination to overcome the pervasive racism she faced throughout her entire life – while watching the “Voice of Freedom” documentary that premiered on PBS last night. It was, of course, difficult to revisit the

When the documentary “Voice of Freedom” about Marian Anderson airs on the PBS series American Experience on Feb. 15 at 9 p.m. ET (and is afterward available for online streaming), it will include never-before-released information from documents found exclusively within the holdings of the National Society in its growing Marian

April 9, 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the historic concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that renowned contralto Marian Anderson performed to an unprecedented audience of 75,000 people. While it saddens us that DAR played a role in this story because Ms. Anderson, an African American