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By Sharon Eberson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette So much of what Thurgood Marshall accomplished is well-documented: As attorney for the NAACP in 1954, he won the Brown v. Board of Education case, …
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Patricia Yollin When Karen Jenkins-Johnson decided to put together an exhibition of photographs by Gordon Parks, she had to choose from at least 900 images. It was an almost impossible …
Anthony Dickey I’m still in awe of how the timing in our lives is so gradual and perfect. Just enough time goes by to learn how wrong life can be …
ArtfixDaily.com) The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition “Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina” May 4 to July 7, 2013. …
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By: Eames Yates Valdosta, GA – Fruits of the Garden Winery played host to Valdosta’s first ever African American Artists Showcase on Saturday evening in Downtown Valdosta. One artist said …
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By B.J. Hammerstein Poet Naomi Long Madgett, musician Shara Worden and Free Press music writer Mark Stryker are among the talents who will be featured when the second edition of …
by Penny Haw, MARCH sees the opening of two new art galleries in Cape Town. US abstract expressionist Andrew Hart Adler’s new “art and culture venue”, Atelier AHA opens in …
by Tammy Ballantyne, I AM completely in love with ballet. It is the ‘perfect’ art form and so complex that perfection is almost unattainable and, for me, a never-ending …
A’talah Foster Heritage and music collide in the dance department’s annual concert celebrating black dance culture. The dance department holds the Sacramento/Black Art of Dance Company, which has been at …
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Detroit County Day student Kaylin White, 18, took third place and a $500 prize in the “McDonald’s Celebrates Black History Moments on Canvas” contest at the N’Namdi Center for …
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by Ashleigh M. Joplin Brick home after brick home creates a blur of tan as you drive through Bronzeville and then something catches your eye, a mural. Either free standing …
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As excitement builds on Broadway for the opening of “Motown: The Musical,” news for real-life Motown singers over the past few weeks has been far more somber. Bobby Rogers, a …
By Tanyanika Samuels / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The art world will once again train its eye on the Bronx on Thursday as part of Armory Show 2013, which draws …
By Douglas Feiden / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The nation’s leading Afro-Caribbean cultural center will begin constructionin early 2014 on an eye-catching new $5.5 million home in a converted landmark …
By Daniel Beekman AND Rich Schapiro / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The Met’s admission policy is as deceptive as an M.C. Escher sketch — duping millions of people into paying …