NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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Get a free Official National Poetry Month Poster. Featuring artwork by Jack Wong, and lines from “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton.
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ART Quote | Gordon Parks Reminds the World about Photography as a Tool for Justice
Image Credit: Gordon Parks, Self-Portrait, 1941, gelatin silver print, 50.8 × 40.64 cm (20 × 16 in.), Private Collection. Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation
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ART Film | I Called Him Morgan | Trailer
I Called Him Morgan (2017) Written/Directed ByKasper Collin Music Composed ByLee Morgan and more I Called Him Morgan is a 2016 Swedish produced documentary film written and directed by Kasper Collin which gives an account of the life of and relation between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen Morgan, later responsible for his murder in February 1972. The documentary was produced…
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ART Visual | Kermit Oliver, Scarf Designer
Scarves Designed by African American United States Postman From the Dallas Museum of Art Kermit Oliver, who was a US Postal Service mail sorter by night and a painter by day, was named the Texas State Artist for 2017. Oliver designed 17 highly prized scarves for the French fashion house Hermes. The humble artist now…
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ART History | Watch Never Aired Interview with James Baldwin, ABC’s 20/20, 1979
Interview Credits: The following 1979 profile of James Baldwin was never aired.Sylvia Chase: Writer, interviewer, Narrator.Joseph Lovett: Producer, DirectorRichard O’Regan: Associate ProducerRobert Leacock, Jr. : CinematographerMichael Lonsdale: SoundEditor: Dina Boogaard.Supervising Producer: Karen Lerner
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ART FREEDOM | JUNETEENTH 2021!
Image Credits: Public Domain
Cover Image Courtesy, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1893). Phillis Wheatley Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-7329-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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