NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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Meet: Black Female Architect is Behind the New Smithsonian Museum
From Urban Intellectuals: Over a century since slavery was abolished, an African-American museum is rising as the last museum to be built on Washington DC’s National Mall. While the leader of the project is David Adjaye a Tanzanian born architect that works out of London and New York City, the focus these days has been…
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Watch: Ruth Negga read Zadie Smith’s ‘Swing Time’
From Vogue.com: Ruth Negga, was asked to read (with her impeccable Irish trill!) the first chapter of what’s destined to be your next favorite—and the season’s hottest—book: Zadie Smith’s Swing Time. Lean back, relax, and have a listen. Consider it our gift to you (and the easiest gift to go out and pick up for someone…
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Read About: America’s First Writers Museum (Five Cool Things)
From Chicagomag.com How do you capture 500 years of American literature in the age of e-readers? With a museum of touchscreens, of course. That’s the conceit of the American Writers Museum, opening May 16 on the second floor of the building at 180 North Michigan Avenue. The first of its kind in the country, 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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