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 Films | Join the clubs! MoAD hosts online film and book clubs to create community around Black culture
View Film On January 24 from 7-8pm. the club talks about SOFTIE, the award-winning 2020 about Boniface Mwangi, Kenya’s most provocative photojournalist who decides to run for political office. Mwangi and Nairobi-based director Sam Soko will join the discussion. Images provided by MoAD public relations.
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ART Advocacy | Racism Up Close and Personal, Toni Morrison & Charlie Rose
Video Reference:12 Gate Studios. “What Racism Is” YouTube video, 6:15. August 15, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EQcy361vB8
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ART Rewind | Time Magazine, 1984: Bell Hooks, 100 Women of The Year
The Undeniable, bell hooks bell hooks, public intellectual, author, and feminist was named as 100 Women of the Year in 2020, by Time Magazine. The publication featured the author’s groundbreaking work 1984: Feminist Theory from Margin to Center as an influential work that unapologetically calls out the scholarly and literary world about their lack of…
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ART Vogue | Black Lives Matter Protest Poster
David John Walker“Words matter. Imagery matters. The role of the visual designer is to produce works for specific outcomes. My aim is always to provoke thought, to inform and to aid decisions.” B.L.M. SERIES 2020 Emmanuel’s Wisdom “Since the European slave ships landed on the coast of Africa in the early 16th century and forcibly…
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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