Fellowship opens eyes to black art history

                                    Photo by Chris King Courtney Baxter Courtney M. Baxter, the Saint Louis Art Museum’s 2015-16 Romare Bearden Graduate Minority Museum Fellow, likes Mickalene Thomas’ 2012 photograph “Din, Une Tres Belle Negresse 1.” She said, “There’s usually a …

Co-op High School showcases African-American arts for Black History Month celebration

Shakira Mclain, 16, a Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School junior, takes a walk through the student-curated art exhibit Thursday. Peter Hvizdak — New Haven Register By Brian Zahn, New Haven Register NEW HAVEN >> Students at Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, who study within “majors,” each reflecting a different art form, this week combined their …

Art, dance and more for Black History Month in Seattle

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“Sharecropper,” a linocut by Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), is part of the exhibit of works from the Harmon and Harriet Kelley exhibition at the Northwest African American Museum. Many of Catlett’s works reflected the hardship faced by women  By Nicole Einbinder Seattle Times reporter “It’s really a very special, rare collection,” said NAAM executive director Rosanna Sharpe. …

These Photos Show The People Of Flint’s Pain And Pride

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 WAYNE LAWRENCE/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Daniel MaransReporter, The Huffington Post The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, that exposed thousands of children to lead-tainted water and contributed to countless other maladies is finally receiving the national attention it deserves. But even with the impoverished city in the limelight, it is easy to overlook the individual struggles — and triumphs — of …

Sister to Sister: Black Women Solidarity

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    Elle HearnsStrategic partner and organizer with #BlackLivesMatter Treva B. LindseyAssistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University Activists Elle Hearns and Treva B. Lindsey discuss the future of Black Women and Femmes.E&T: As Black women, they don’t want us to win. We know that, and it has never …

DAVID RUBENSTEIN DONATES $10 M. TO SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE

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National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.COURTESY FREELON ADJAYE BOND/SMITH GROUP BY Hannah Ghorashi POSTED 01/20/16 5:23 PM The Smithsonian announced that philanthropist David Rubenstein, cofounder of the Carlyle Group private equity firm, has given $10 million to the institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s capital campaign. With this donation, the museum …

“STATEMENTS,” AT MFAH, IS A REMARKABLE EXHIBIT OF ARTISTIC STEPS FORWARD

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The Cradle shows an anguished mother cradling her child BY RANDY TIBBITS   You don’t often get the chance to see in person a work of art that changed the course of history, but you can see one now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. And not just any history, but Houston’s history. Even the history …

Smithsonian opening African-American history museum Sept

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NAZZARO STRIANO The Baltimore Museum of Art announced Monday a set of initiatives to increase awareness of works by African-American artists, in honor of Black History Month. Tourists walk past the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture, which is under construction in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama will lead a dedication and ribbon-cutting …

Global Blackness and Diasporan Dopeness

Luvvie Ajayi Award-winning writer and digital strategist who thrives at the intersection of comedy, technology and activism. I didn’t growing up knowing I was Black or having to deal with the idea of Blackness because I was born and raised in Nigeria. In a country where “Black” is the default, it doesn’t need to be …

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Dr. Walter P. Lomax Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, sits up in his hotel room bed in Philadelphia, Feb. 10, 1968 while being examined by Dr. Walter Lomax, a Philadelphia physician. (AP Photo) Last year we lost one of Philadelphia’s truly great men. He would have been 82 this week. BY MICHAEL COARD  |  JULY …

SF African American Historical Society’s annual Black History Month program

by Eldoris Cameron The San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society will launch the 2016 annual Black History Month kickoff in the Rotunda at City Hall on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, at 12 noon followed by a reception in the South Light Court. John William Templeton, Oxford University Press historian, will address the national …

Cincinnati Art Museum Features Local Artist For Black History Month

Posted Wednesday, February 3rd 2016 @ 6am  by 700WLW News (Cincinnati) To Celebrate Black History Month in the Tristate, The Cincinnati Art Museum has a digital art gallery that everyone can see on-line which features paintings by African-American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson. According to the Cincinnati Art Museum’s exhibit, Duncanson was born the grandson of a …

Angela Davis Quote

Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the socity in which they live, but also about the intensity social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation Angela Davis