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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Genealogy: During Black History Month, Fold3 is making the records in its Black History collection available for free through the end of February.
From Fold3: Throughout U.S. History, African Americans have played an integral part in the development and achievement of this country. Fold3 is now revealing a side of the African American story that few have seen before. View more than a million rare photos and documents. In recognition of Black History Month, Fold3 is making the records in…
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Symposium: Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power | LIVESTREAM
From ART | library deco: Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power “Soul of a Nation: Artists in Conversation” SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 10 AM TO 5:00 PM Celebrate the opening of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. This symposium features exhibition artists and curators who will…
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#Freebook: The Colors of Black History
From ART | library deco: Like to color? Need to release some stress? Want to think about your ancestors while sipping on tea or coffee? The Colors of Black History: Coloring Book | features African American politicians, writers, educators, and activists as visual conceptions to creatively take you into moments of solitude. Anyone that is…
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Podcast: Contemporary Black Canvas, By Dr. Pia Deas, Professor of African American Literature, interviews Black novelists, poets, filmmakers, visual artists, and radical gardeners and farmers
From ART | library deco: Description Contemporary Black Canvas celebrates the depth and breadth of the Black artistic and intellectual traditions from across the African Diaspora and Africa. Through conversations with leading writers, musicians, filmmakers, visual artists, dancers, radical gardeners, and institution builders, we examine the Black imagination as a vital, vibrant, and dynamic force…
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Obituary: Jack Whitten, African American Artist Transitions at 78
From Hyperallergic: Jack Whitten, who died this past weekend at age 78, cut across a lot of lines in his art and in his life. He was born in Bessemer, Alabama, in 1939, when Jim Crow laws were used to enforce segregation. He heard Martin Luther King Jr. speak in a church in Alabama in…
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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