Play about generational struggles of Black men will be presented at Acrosstown theater
Calming the Man” tells the story of Daddyo and his two sons as they navigate the scars of segregation and inherited anger in ...
‘The people’s painter’ left mark in Black art internationally — but shined in NC hometown
Langston Hughes is known as the people’s poet. I would say Biggers is the people’s painter. The man and the work are one.” ...
The Truth About Black Responsibility In Hollywood
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” examines the influential Sly and the Family Stone front man. It also probes a ...
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Alonzo Davis, Artist and Pioneering Gallerist Who Championed Black Art, Has Died
Alonzo Davis, the artist and educator who cofounded Los Angeles's storied African American stronghold the Brockman Gallery, ...
‘Dutchman’: An Electrifying Dance of Death
A newly restored film adaptation of Amiri Baraka’s provocative 1964 play evoking racial and sexual anxiety is showing at the Museum of Modern Art.
19 Black trailblazers that may not have been in your history book
While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...
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The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Greener, the first Black man to graduate from Harvard ... her love of art and literature, and her path-breaking work as a librarian. Yet I’m often asked whether Greene mentions her passing as white in ...
Highwaymen Art Weekend Returning To Fort Pierce, FL February 14-16
Each February, the A.E. Backus Museum & Gallery in Fort Pierce, FL hosts a Florida Highwaymen Weekend Celebration.
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Black History Month: 19 Black trailblazers that may not have been in your history book
While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...
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Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
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Seattle’s Johsel Namkung and photography’s “Silent Voices”
The West Gallery features Namkung’s portraits of iconic classical musicians produced in the 1970’s, when the musicians were ...
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, whose art centered Native life, dies at 85
Ms. Smith was among the country’s most renowned Native artists, crafting pieces that incorporated Indigenous images and ...