NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
Take a moment to rewind and catch up on the latest updates in the art library – now archived.
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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Read/Listen: Slave Narratives
From “No More Auction Block” by Paul Robeson & The Library of Congress: About this Collection Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project…
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Interview: Life of a Poet, Dawn Lundy Martin
From the Library of Congress: TITLE: Life of a Poet: Dawn Lundy Martin SPEAKER: Ron Charles, Dawn Lundy Martin EVENT DATE: 2017/10/23 RUNNING TIME: 66 minutes TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript DESCRIPTION: An in-depth discussion with poet Dawn Lundy Martin, covering her entire career and the major events that have shaped her work. Watch Interview: http://www.loc.gov/webcasts
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Archived Exhibit: Patrick Kelly: “Runway of Love” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art: “I want my clothes to make you smile”—that was the goal of late African American designer Patrick Kelly in creating his bold, bright, and joyful creations. Kelly achieved this on the streets, nightclubs, and runways of New York, Paris, and beyond in the heady, inventive, and often-subversive urban milieu…
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Genealogy: “A Checklist of African American Resources” |Register for Free Webinar
From Legacy Family Tree: Beyond the usual databases for census and vital records, this session will outline critical collections to find African American families. Using resources from the Schomburg research center to the Smithsonian, this session will explore the unknown and lesser known resources for documenting African American families. Instructor: Angela Walton-Raji Details: Friday, May…
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Watch: PBS Black History Programming 2018
From PBS.org: PBS is proud to celebrate Black History this February and all year round! In 2018, watch a new slate of programs and join timely and important conversations about race in America with independent documentaries, and more! Explore. Watch. Connect. Visit pbs.org/blackhistory for a full lineup of programs. All films are available to watch online one…
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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