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Penumbra Theatre Company, the nation’s preeminent African American theatre, announces the casting of I Wish You Love, by Dominic Taylor, directed by Lou Bellamy. The production features Dennis W. Spears …
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Artist Margaret Bowland described it as “a funeral where you get to be alive.” It was the day after Bowland’s art opening at Babcock Galleries and the Burlington native was …
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One of the most violent moments of the civil rights era occurred in Montgomery 50 years ago and today Alabama State University is unveiling a series of artistic depictions of …
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The Vacaville Museum exhibit “AFRICA! We Connect” ends March 27, when museum staff will begin to prepare for a new, significant traveling show, “African American History: From the Collection of …
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by Gary Norris Gray CALIFORNIA–Inland African countries like Northern Benin, Niger, Western Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and Western Chad, treated their disabled children like kings and queens. It was a sign …
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by: Max Eternity “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is an oft-recited quote attributed to George Satayana — philosopher, poet, essayist and novelist. It’s …
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By ERIC K. ARNOLD The culture of street art “is about reclaiming our visual space … in the name of freedom and expression.” So says local visual-art legend Refa One, …
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By Dexter Mullins (ThyBlackMan.com) Short of dropping the n-bomb on someone, there are few things more insulting to many African-Americans than being called an “Uncle Tom.” The term originates from …
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by David C. Driskell Born in 1931 into a family of Georgia sharecroppers,David C. Driskell is today a renowned painter and collector of art, as well as one of the …
by: John Marin The High Museum of Art will host “John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism,” the first major comprehensive exhibition addressing John Marin’s (1870–1953) modernist achievements in the …
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Sometimes a career survey doubles as a scan of social history. This is true of Glenn Ligon’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, a tight but ample show …
By: ROGER CATLIN NEW HAVEN — — Before Black History Month disappears next week, it’s worth noting a major show on the subject of African American identity that opened last …
by: Gary Younge When Reverend Andre Reynolds, minister of music at the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, looks out to the congregation for inspiration, he occasionally lifts his …
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By ELISABETH KIRSCH Long before Google Earth, artists (or, perhaps, aliens) created images that could only be viewed in their entirety from way up high. Witness the Nazca Lines in …
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A fun day steeped in the arts and humanities is in store for more than 130 seventh- and eighth-grade students from six Muskegon County school districts on Friday. Follow Your …
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