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  • #freebooks: Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination

    From the Met Free Publications: Book: Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination Acknowledgments Director’s Foreword Philippe de Montebello Introduction Alisa LaGamma Map of Sub-Saharan Africa John Pemberton III Catalogue Oracular Sculpture: Figurative Divination Instruments Visual Metaphors: Ifa Divination Instruments Dynamic Devices: Kinetic Oracles Visual Commentaries: Sets of Divination Signs Invoking the Spirits: Musical…

  • Event: A FREE Interactive Community Conversation with Kevin Powell

    From the Los Angeles Public Library:   Discussion Description: An interactive community conversation with Kevin Powell: activist, writer, public speaker and host of the podcast “One on One with Kevin Powell”. Kevin is also the co-founder of BK Nation, the author of 13 books, including his autobiography The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey…

  • Genealogy: Now Available, “vintage black genealogy, vol.1” Download Today!

    From the African American Genealogy Project: The African American Genealogy project, curating memories for generations to come… has designed a monthly workshop series for life-long learners. Each workshop features a comprehensive self-paced guided designed and curated by an accredited professional librarian to use during workshops and are free when you register. For those that are…

  • Exhibt: TOYIN OJIH ODUTOLA, The Firmament

    From Hood Museum of Art @ Dartmouth: Exhibition On View | JUNE 08, 2018, THROUGH SEPTEMBER 02, 2018   Stories take center stage in Toyin Ojih Odutola’s drawings. She catches her characters at quiet moments captured from otherwise rich and complex lives. Short on specifics and long on allusion, the narratives she evokes suggest a…

  • Watch: 6 Artists On Black Identity

    From the Louisiana Channel | Videos on the arts, featuring the artists: “Where am I in this story?” Watch artists such as Wangechi Mutu, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Chimamanda Adichie discuss how black people are (mis-)represented in today’s society and culture. Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) discusses the narrow perception of beauty in African…

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