NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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ART Transition: Black Arts Advocate, David C. Driskell’s Legacy
From ART | library deco: David Clyde Driskell was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the son of George Washington Driskell, a minister, and Mary Cloud Driskell, a homemaker. When he was five years old, he moved with his family to western North Carolina. Driskell attended Howard University, Washington, D.C., graduating with a bachelor’s degree in art,…
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ART News: LARGE-SCALE SCULPTURES BY GHANAIAN ARTIST PAA JOE ON VIEW AT HIGH MUSEUM OF ART THIS SPRING
From High Museum Art Atlanta: Works represent Gold Coast fortresses connected to African slave trade ATLANTA, Feb. 3, 2020 – This spring, the High Museum of Art presents “Paa Joe: Gates of No Return” (Feb. 29–May 31, 2020), an exhibition organized by the American Folk Art Museum featuring a series of seven large-scale, painted wood…
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ART View: In the West Side district of Chicago, Illinois, October 1973
Description: BLACK STUDENT IN A BLACK STUDIES CLASS IN A WEST SIDE CHICAGO CLASSROOM READING A BOOK ABOUT GREAT RULERS IN AFRICA’S PAST RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN A RESURGENCE BY VARIOUS MINORITIES OF THEIR HISTORIES. PRIDE IN THEIR HERITAGE HAS LED TO CONTINUING TRADITIONS AND ASPECTS OF THEIR CULTURE WHICH ARE UNIQUE IN AMERICAN TRADITION.…
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ART N Music | Listen to Bubbha Thomas, By Flash Gordon Parks
From Flash Gordon Parks “About Bubbha Thomas: Bubbha Thomas was a musician, activist, author and educator. He was the drummer and bandleader for The Lightmen Plus One who from 1970 – 1975 recorded some of the most innovative, progressive Spiritual Jazz Funk Houston has ever witnessed. Bubbha Thomas was also responsible for the Summer Youth…
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ART N Lyrics | Short Story: The Bouquet, By Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 1858-1932
From The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, [An Excerpt] By Charles Chessnutt Pg. 269: The Bouquet …So Sophy stayed outside, and looked through the fence. Her poor bouquet had begun to droop by this time, and the yellow ribbon had lost some of its freshness. Sophy could see the…
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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