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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By TA-NEHISI COATES: ‘Letter to My Son’ – “Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”
From The Atlantic.com: An Excerpt from TA-NEHISI COATES forthcoming book, Between The World and Me “…And what did that mean for the Dreamers I’d seen as a child? Could I ever want to get into the world they made? No. I was born among a people, Samori, and in that realization I knew that I…
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The Clotilda: The last known United States slave ship to bring enslaved Africans to the U. S
From Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History: July 8, 1860 The Clotilda, the last known United States slave ship to bring enslaved Africans to the U. S., entered the Mississippi Sound and anchored off Point-of-Pines in Grand Bay, Alabama with 110 African captives. The United States had banned the importation of enslaved people January…
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Full text of “African-American artists of Los Angeles oral history transcript, 1990 : Noah Purifoy”
Take a look at the full transcript of Noah Purifoy’s interview for UCLA’s oral history project highlighting African-American artists available on the Internet Archive. On View | Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through September 27.
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Dread Scott: Radical Conscience
From Black Artist News Dread Scott: Radical Conscience Text | A.M. Weaver Excerpt: Dread Scott’s edict is make “revolutionary” art — to propel history forward.” Since the early 1990s, after graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and completing the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program, Scott has joined the…
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Let’s Talk Black Images: An Interview with Adama Delphine Fawundu by Faron Manuel
Excerpt, From Black Art In America: Interview with Adama Delphine Question: Throughout your career you’ve documented a diverse range of individuals & personalities that so happen to be classified as black. I must ask, what are you trying to communicate, or expose through you work? Answer: My main goal is to document and create art…
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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