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: Join Free Research Group | Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission
From the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission: RESEARCH | Are you a community member, student, professor, artist or independent scholar engaged in studying some aspect of Gullah Geechee culture or land use? In January 2018, the Commission will begin convening a free, monthly conference call designed to help facilitate your research and creative work in…
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Read: James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe’s Forgotten Conversation About Beauty, Morality, and the Political Power of Art
From Brainpickings: Article Excerpt By Maria Popova Achebe begins by defining an aesthetic as “those qualities of excellence which culture discerns from its works of art” and argues that our standards for this excellence are mutable — constantly changing, in a dynamic interaction with our social, cultural, and political needs: Aesthetic cannot be fixed, immutable.…
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ArtTalks: Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs at the Whitney Museum
From the Whitney Museum of American Art: To celebrate the publication of Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs, a book of Lyle Ashton Harris’s Ektachrome archive, Harris is joined by an intergenerational group of artists and writers for a night of conversation and reflection. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, Harris photographed the radical cultural…
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#freebooks: African Voices | Summer 2017 Digital Issue
From African Voices: “A Soulful Collection of Art and Literature” Our digital Summer 2017 issue celebrates the power of graphic novelists to create heroines and heroes that honor our legacy and future! Special thanks to artists Afua Richardson and N. Steven Harris for allowing African Voices to share their work on our front covers — this is the first double issue in the…
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Art.Education: Digital Blackness in the Archive: A Documenting the Now Symposium – View Online
From DocNow: The second Documenting the Now symposium, to be held in conjunction with our advisory board meeting, will address issues at the intersection of archival practice and the existence of Black people on the web and social media. Invited speakers will discuss their work on the Black experience in online spaces including research on…
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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