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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FINDING YOUR ROOTS: The Stories We Tell
From PBS.org/FINDING YOUR ROOTS FINDING YOUR ROOTS The Stories We Tell Preview: Kara Walker View Online Here: http://www.pbs.org/video/2365637418/ Watch a clip from Finding Your Roots: season three, episode one with Kara Walker. Rating: NR
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Still Tickin’: Betye Saar
From Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: Betye Saar: Still Tickin’ | Exhibition: Jan 30 – May 1, 2016 Description There is a touch of alchemy to Betye Saar’s artwork: transforming the simple and mundane into powerful art. Since the 1960s, her compelling, astute and expressive works reflect on African- American identity, spirituality and the interconnectedness between…
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Mickalene Thomas Photographs and Publication at Aperture, January
From aperture: Opening reception: Wednesday, January 27, 7:00–8:30 p.m. Aperture Gallery hours: Monday–Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Thursday: 10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Closed Sunday The accompanying Aperture publication, Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs, is the first to gather together her various approaches to photography, including portraits, collages, Polaroids, and other processes. The idea of communities of inspiration will…
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Watch: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of The Revolution
From PBS.org/Independent Lens: INDEPENDENT LENS | The Black Panthers: Vanguard of The Revolution (Theatrical) View Film Here: http://www.pbs.org/video/2365528595/ 2:31 | Aired: 07/20/15 | Rating: NR New film by acclaimed documentarian Stanley Nelson about the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party.
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Black Artists and the March into the Museum
From The New York Times: By RANDY KENNEDY, NOV. 28, 2015 The painter Norman Lewis rarely complained in public about the singular struggles of being a black artist in America. But in 1979, dying of cancer, he made a prediction to his family. “He said to us, ‘I think it’s going to take about 30…
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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