Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power

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Susan E. Cahan, associate dean for the arts at Yale College (Duke University Press) Prior to 1967 fewer than a dozen museum exhibitions had featured the work of African-American artists. And …

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 …

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 …

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. …