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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The Charleston 9 | A Retrospective in Color
From The New York Times: Looking at an Artist’s Portraits of the Charleston Shooting Victims For years, Rudy Shepherd has made watercolor paintings to humanize people in the news. By DANIEL McDERMONJAN. 11, 2017 Read complete article and view images here.
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ALL-STAR TRIBUTE TO NMAAHC AIRS TONIGHT THURSDAY, JANUARY 12
From NMAAHC The National Museum of African American History and Culture takes center stage on ABC Television on Thursday. The network will air “Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America” on ABC stations nationwide at 9 pm ET/8 pm CT. Filmed live at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing…
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2017 | Black Fashion Designers Exhibition
From The Museum at FIT Fashion & Textile History Gallery December 6 – May 16, 2017 Share using #BlackFashionDesigners on Twitter and Instagram. There have been past exhibitions about individual black fashion designers, such as Stephen Burrows and Patrick Kelly, but this exhibition explores the experiences of several generations of fashion designers of African descent…
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2017 | I, too, am America: A Song of Race and Language
From Black Art in America January 24, 2017 – Saturday, March 25, 2017 Community Folk Art Center 805 E. Genesee Street Syracuse, NY 13210 In Ralph Ellison’s speech “What Children are Like” he discusses subcultures in African American Communities and how they are reflected through language. In conjunction with the powerful words of Langston Hughes,…
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#freebooks | Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah
Free Audio Book: Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa…
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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