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The Huffington Post | By Julee Wilson We’ve all heard and seen shining examples of the age-old adage, “black don’t crack.” Thanks to good genes, lots of ultraviolet ray-shielding melanin, natural oils and some say the grace of God — many black folk enjoy a youthful appearance way past the age others start to experience …
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Joe Satran On a recent afternoon at Julius Lowy Frame and Restoration Co., a three-by-four frame sat on a work table, shining with freshly-applied gold leaf. The craftsmen at Lowy, as it’s known, still apply gold leaf by hand, a painstaking process that starts with coating a wood frame with successive layers of gesso, yellow …
Southwest Michigan Second Wave | By Zinta Aistars This article originally appeared in Southwest Michigan Second Wave. A kid who would give up recess to make time for another lesson? Never happen. At Woods Lake Elementary at 3215 Oakland Drive, in the Kids in Tune program, however, that is precisely what did happen. And not …
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By JENNY BARCHFIELD RIO DE JANEIRO — Many Brazilians cast their country as racial democracy where people of different groups long have intermarried, resulting in a large mixed-race population. But you need only turn on the TV, open the newspaper or stroll down the street to see clear evidence of segregation. In Brazil, whites are …
In their latest special exhibition, the Chicago History Museum is paying homage to the Ebony Fashion Fair. The traveling show began in 1958 and, thanks to the leadership of its long-time producer and director Eunice Walker Johnson of the Chicago-based Johnson Publishing Company, brought stunning European fashion to the African American community. “My mother often …
The CEO of Channing Capital Management has great taste—and a sense of humor about his “impractical” Gold Coast gear. By Heiji Choy Black Eric McKissack, 59, is known for his financial savvy: He runs an investment management firm. But he also gets kudos for being one of the best-dressed men in Chicago. Whether it’s a …
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HuffPost Arts&Culture is celebrating Women’s History Monthwith the help of our favorite artists — female artists, of course. Every day of March we’re rolling out a new key player in the art world with a playing card… Get it? Print them out for your own amazing (although probably a bit flimsy) card deck or …
In production now for distribution in March 2013: a special issue on connections between visual art, mass media, popular culture and digital technologies. The contemporary pop art genre is heavily influenced by hip hop culture; sci fi and other forms of mass media, and digital technologies, and encompasses the work of numerous African American artists working …
Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part III: Poetics and Politics March 22 – May 18, 2013 Opening Reception: Thursday, March 21, from 6pm-8pm THE WALTHER COLLECTION PROJECT SPACE 508-516 West 26th Street, Suite 718 New York, NY The Walther Collection presents Poetics and Politics, the third and last exhibition in the …
Merton D. Simpson, Painter, Collector and Dealer in African Art, Dies at 84 Text | Bruce Weber Published | New York Times, March 14, 2013 Merton D. Simpson, an artist who became a trailblazing collector and gallery owner specializing in African art, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 84. Mr. Simpson had had several …
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The Huffington Post | By Dominique Mosbergen The 2016 election may still be several years away, but some democrats are already getting excited about a political match that they say is made in heaven: Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama on the presidential ticket. “All due respect for President Obama and Vice President Biden, …
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The Huffington Post | By Rebecca Adams Michelle Obama’s Vogue cover is finally here! After weeks of speculating (and speculating), the first lady’s second cover for the fashion glossy has arrived — and it’s absolutely stunning. As expected, photographer Annie Leibovitz shot Michelle, who wore a blue and purple Reed Krakoff sheath plucked straight from …
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Forty eight years ago, the Edmund Pettus Bridge was the site of a horrific attack on some 600 civil rights demonstrators, traveling from Selma to Montgomery. When the then Alabama governor George Wallace ordered state and local police to stop the march on grounds of public safety, the group was confronted by authorities armed with …
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By MAURICE BERGER Inside a beauty parlor in a small Florida town, Carrie is having her hair done. She is oblivious to the commotion around her. Peering intently into a mirror, she is at that quintessential moment of beautification when she must decide if the image she sees pleases her and she is ready to …
African American art is a constant feature in the cultural scene of Prince George’s County. Currently there are three diverse survey exhibitions of African American art in the county that portray the diversity of black artists and the art that they create. “Convergence: Jazz, Film, and the Visual Arts” at the David C. Driskell …
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