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ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Patty Jackson, radio personality at WDAS-FM: “Sometimes we won’t listen to a whisper but we’ll hear a roar.” by Jenice Armstrong, Daily News Columnist.  @JeniceArmstrong Out …
Continue reading “Life turned upside down by stroke at age 52”
Susan E. Cahan, associate dean for the arts at Yale College (Duke University Press) Prior to 1967 fewer than a dozen museum exhibitions had featured the work of African-American artists. And …
Continue reading “Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power”
by Carolina A. Miranda Curator Naima Keith, who for five years helped organize lauded exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, has been named the new deputy director for exhibitions and programs …
Miles Davis, photographed by William CouponPhotograph courtesy of the Cooper Gallery  by SOPHIA NGUYEN  THE FRONT HALL of the Cooper Gallery on Mount Auburn Street, what appear to be two bubble-shaped lanterns …
Company enlists African American artist Keith Rosemond II to create illustrations inspired by real stories from its #MyUntoldâ„ Â storytelling campaign CHARLOTTE, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Â Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) recently commissioned …
Continue reading “Wells Fargo Commissions Original Art Depicting the African American Experience”
(ArtfixDaily.com) Weschler’s Auctioneers is pleased to offer a compelling selection of African American Art featuring the Collection of Reverend Douglas E. Moore and Dr. Doris Hughes-Moore on February 26th, 2016. …
Mary-Pat Hector (left) and La’Die Mansfield Photograph by Sheila Pree Bright The movement is producing leaders, most of whom are not preachers or politicians—or even men February 8, 2016  …
Continue reading “Faces of a Movement: Meet 3 Atlanta women of Black Lives Matter”
By Kelly Petty on February 7, 2016  ColaDaily.com is your source for free news and information in Columbia and the Midlands. Pop singer Beyoncé and English band Coldplay’s music collaboration “Hymn for A …
Continue reading “African-American artists ‘REMIX’ culture, identity in new exhibit”
Photo:COURTESY OF PATRISSE CULLORS-BRIGNAC Patrisse Cullors-Brignac is one of the three co-founders of one of the most powerful and demanding movements today: Black Lives Matters. Inspired by the acts of Harriet …
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Madonna: Elizabeth Catlett (1919-2012). Madonna, 1982. Lithograph, 29 x 22 in. Collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Permanent Collection Fund Purchase. Art Catlett Mora Family Trust/Licensed by VAGA, New York, …
Tricia Tongco Social Media Editor for Arts & Culture, The Huffington Post Throughout elementary and junior high, I had been a straight-A student. But by high school, I had become …
Continue reading “How Art History Taught Me That I, A Woman Of Color, Could Create”
JESSE GRANT VIA GETTY IMAGES The cast of “Black-ish’” had a successful night at the 47th NAACP Image Awards. Lilly Workneh Senior Black Voices Editor, The Huffington Post The 47th NAACP …
Continue reading “The NAACP Image Awards Show The Oscars What It’s Missing”
By Todd Leopold and Emanuella Grinberg, CNN (CNN)Maurice White, the Earth, Wind & Fire leader and singer who co-wrote such hits as “Shining Star,” “Sing a Song” and “September,” has died, according to …
Continue reading “Maurice White, leader and founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, dies at 74”
GETTY IMAGES/FLICKR RF  Donald M. Payne, Jr.  Democratic congressman representing New Jersey’s 10th congressional district Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned for this nation a future of vast …
Continue reading “The State of Our Union: Have We Achieved Dr. King’s Dream?”
EBONY.com The premiere online magazine destination for African-American cultural insight, news and perspective. “This is the meaning of Negro History Week. It is not so much a Negro History …