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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Exhibition: Beyond Borders: Global Africa, at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
From the University of Michigan Museum of Art: Bringing together paintings, photographs, sculpture and installations created in Africa, Europe and the United States from the 19th to the 21st centuries, Beyond Borders: Global Africa features approximately 40 works of art drawn from UMMA’s African art collection and from private and public holdings around the world,…
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Event: Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black” AADHum Conference …
From Save the date and join the African American Digital Humanities Initiative (AADHum) at the University of Maryland for the first national conference, “Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black,” October 18-20, 2018. Location: University of Maryland, College Park What happens to digital humanities inquiry when we begin with Black culture, Black thought, and Black persons at the…
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Exhibition: Fondazione Prada presents “The Black Image Corporation” by Theaster Gates
From Fondazione Prada: Fondazione Prada presents “The Black Image Corporation”, an exhibition conceived by Theaster Gates, from 20 September 2018 to 14 January 2019 at the Osservatorio venue in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan. The project explores the fundamental legacy of Johnson Publishing Company archives, which feature more than 4 million images and have contributed to…
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Listen: Langston Hughes, Classic: Harlem in Vogue… ft. Charles Mingus
From ART | library deco: Langston Hughes Harlem in Vogue: The Poetry and Jazz of Langston Hughes These poems are dark and bitter, “some of the harshest political verse ever penned by an American,” writes Hughes scholar Arnold Rampersad. Langston Hughes – narrator Charles Mingus – bass Jimmy Knepper – trombone Shafi Hadi – tenor…
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ART Event: Studio Salon | Open Archive, Studio Museum Harlem
From Studio Museum Harlem: Studio Salon: Open Archive Wednesday, September 19, 1–5:30 pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd Join the Studio Museum Harlem and the Schomburg Center for an archivist-led tour of the collections followed by a Wikipedia edit-a-thon with the Black Lunch Table inspired by archival materials highlighted…
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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