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ART POETICS | Langton Hughes: The Weary Blues
NOW IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN The Weary Blues, 1926 by James Mercer Langston Hughes On January 1, 2022, copyrighted works from entered the US public domain where they are free for all to copy, share, and build upon. Langston Hughes’ The Weary Blues, is now available in this year’s domain. Written in 1925, “The Weary Blues” was first…
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ART VINTAGE | A MOMENT IN TIME: HARLEM
“I believe that the African American’s advantages and opportunities are greater in Harlem than in any other place in the country, and that Harlem will become the intellectual, the cultural and the financial center for Negroes of the United States and will exert a vital influence upon all Negro peoples.” —James Weldon Johnson, “Harlem: The…
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ART TALK | FREE VIRTUAL AFRICAN AMERICN ART PANEL: Artists as Arts Administrators
ALL THAT LIGHT For the last decade, Arts + Public Life (APL) and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) have co-hosted an Artists-in-Residence program intentionally designed to center Black and Brown artists working in Chicago’s South Side. Ten years later, these AIRs alumni are among Chicago’s most compelling and successful…
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ART EMANCIPATION | REGISTER FOR THE JUNETEENTH 2022 (SELF-PACED) WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THON
Happy Emancipation Day! Join ART | library deco and Wikimedia DC for a special day that will consist of archiving Texas’ Black History. This event welcomes beginners, intermediate, and advanced transcribers. Edit current articles from an archived list and or contribute new content. From Nina Jay: Fawohodie is an Adinkra symbol that comes from the term…
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ART FREEDOM | Documentary Film By VOX, “Why All Americans Should Honor Juneteenth”
Cover Image: Public Domain | Why all Americans should honor Juneteenth, Courtesy of Vox.com & The Austin History Center.
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