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DOUBLE PLAY CONNECTIONS, DOING LIFE PRODUCTIONS, and Jane Dubin, Executive Producer are pleased to present Iyaba Ibo Mandingo’s unFRAMED directed by Brent Buell as a Spotlight Show at the D.C. …
Natalie Hopkinson is a contributing editor toThe Root. The Anacostia Community Museum is one of the Smithsonian Institution’s grand, federally chartered Washington, D.C., museums, but it is located miles from …
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The Dallas Museum of Art has announced its annual awards to artists, which offer grants for travel and special projects to nine individuals. Some familiar names as of late: Edward …
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On the penultimate episode of Oprah Winfrey‘s beloved television show, aired today, actor Tom Hanks tells the TV icon in a video tribute: “Your show has turned surprise into an …
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With the flamboyant orneriness that limitless wealth allows, the art collector Adam Lindemann and his wife, Amalia Dayan, have staged an act of architectural dissidence on the Upper East Side. …
Over five years since the catastrophe of hurricane Katrina, communities in New Orleans are still struggling to rebuild and return. Shocking images of Katrina broadcast globally continue to communicate the …
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Two Brooklyn opera companies, AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) and OPERA ON TAP (OOT), will present Opera Grows in Brooklyn: Opera of Color, featuring a collection of contemporary opera and song …
Panoramic PoetryFriday, May 20 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm 6353 Greene Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144 The Downtown Panoramic Poetry Shows every 2nd & 3rd Friday have now moved from Downtown 701 …
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I’m going to make some points about the lesser controversies (namely the lyrics issue) surrounding the invitation of rapper/poet “Common” to the Whitehouse, because John Nolte has the larger controversies …
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The Detroit Institute of Arts will name its new gallery of contemporary African American art after a pioneering General Motors executive and his wife. The newly named Maureen and Roy …
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Throughout their 10-year career in broadcasting, radio personalities and brothers Doug and Ryan Stewart of the nationally syndicated sports talk show, The 2 Live Stews, have stood tall as community …
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Tylik Mejia wasn’t that excited about an opportunity to work with the Creative Arts Workshops for Kids to design a mural to attract people to Harlem River Park. “I declined …
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‘At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing’ edited by George Kimball and John Schulian Library of America, 517 pp., $35 Blame it on Hemingway. George Kimball, in the introduction to …
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For 25 years Yusef Harris has promoted black awareness at Alkebu-Lan Images Bookstore, an independent bookstore that focuses on black history, education, self-help and spirituality. “I wanted products that reflect …
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Change, long discussed and planned, is taking shape and form these days in Lexington’s East End neighborhood. The latest evidence is materializing on a half-acre parcel of state-owned property near …
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