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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 of nowhere, WDAS-FM radio...
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 by the time the...
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 at the California African American...
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 hang from the ceiling—but...
Company enlists African American artist Keith Rosemond II to create illustrations inspired by real stories from its #MyUntold℠ storytelling campaign CHARLOTTE, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) recently commissioned Atlanta-based artist Keith Rosemond...
(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. This specialized sale focuses...
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 George Chidi Black Lives...
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 Weekend” recently has become...
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 Tubman and the legacies...
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, NY Some famous...
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 a slacker who made...
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 Image Awards boasted an all-star...
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 his brother, EWF bassist...
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 potential; a future where...
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 Week as it is...