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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The Tyler, Texas Black Film Collection
From Black Art in America: The Tyler, Texas Black Film Collection is comprised of film shorts, features and newsreels produced between 1935 and 1956. “The African-American films include comedies, dramas, news, and musical performances, and were made outside the Hollywood system by pioneering directors and producers such as Oscar Micheaux, Spencer Williams, and William Alexander”.…
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The Archives: Unpublished Black History via The New York Times
From The New York Times: Unpublished Black History By RACHEL L. SWARNS, DARCY EVELEIGH and DAMIEN CAVE Revealing moments in black history, with unpublished photos from The New York Times’s archives. Every day during Black History Month, we will publish at least one of these photographs online, illuminating stories that were never told…
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Visuals of Kendrick Lamar Taking Front and Center at the Grammy’s | Music History
Watch Kendrick Lamar’s 2016 Grammy Performance Here
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Kadir Nelson’s Tribute to the Harlem Reniassance, Now Published on the Cover of The New Yorker
From The New Yorker: Kadir Nelson, this week’s cover artist, wanted to create “a stylistic montage as an homage to the great Harlem Renaissance painters.” Read more about his inspiration here: http://nyer.cm/xVq5AxM
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Willi Donnell Smith, The Most Successful Black Designer in History
From Cosmopolite: Willi Smith was declared by fashion writer, Liz Rittersporn, with the New York Daily News in 1987, as indisputably, “the most successful black designer in fashion history”. Willi Smith, founder of Williwear in 1976, increased his sales from $30,000 to $25 million in his first year in 1986. His line was featured 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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