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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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The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will host a panel discussion featuring 11 artists from the museum’s current exhibition of works by African-American artists, “Tradition Redefined: …
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By Rebecca Rafferty The Baobab Cultural Center gives voice to local and regional African-American concerns, joys, and visual talents more frequently than the designated annual Black History Month. Year round, …
by:Jennifer Edwards PAM FINLEY holds a carving done by a New Orleans artist that is part of the African-American folk art owned by her and her husband, John Finley, at …
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by: Margaret Burroughs FAITH LAPIDUS: The National Museum of African American History and Culture is presenting the exhibit. It is called “The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley …
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By MAUREEN ELGERSMAN LEE Before I moved to Virginia three and a half years ago, I started an intellectual journey unlike any I had embarked on before. The goal was …
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