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ART Literary |SCHOMBURG CENTER LITERARY FESTIVAL: The Virtual Edition
Free Registration Now Open! VIEW THE COMPLETE FALL 2020 SCHEDULE FOR THE LITERARY FESTIVAL PRE-FESTIVAL EVENT! Lift Every Voice: 250 Years of African American Poetic Traditions, Featuring Kevin Young SEPT 17 @ 6:30 PM (ET)
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ART History | The Brazoria County 1619 Descendants Project
About the Project On June 19, 2020, Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site (VHP) in West Columbia received a grant from the 400 Years of African American History Commission in Washington, DC for a year-long project called The Brazoria County 1619 Descendants Project. The purpose of the project is to create a digital repository of at least 1,619 photographs, letters, recipes,…
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ART literary | THE SPIRIT OF BLACK AUGUST: Ready Poetry By Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott was a Caribbean poet, born in 1930 in Castries on the island of St. Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The Nobel Laureate transitioned in March 2017. Dark August by Derek WalcottSo much rain, so much life like the swollen skyof this black August. My sister, the sun,broods in her…
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ART Boutique | The Last Days of Summer 2020: Inside IDEAZIO
Check out the latest designs below by IDEAZIO BOUTIQUE! $upport. Invest. Black. Click Here to Shop @ Ideazio Boutique Today! IDEAZIO BOUTIQUE is a virtual African American fashion boutique, managed by NOVELLA MEDIA, L.L.C. Designs are created by our in-house team in Austin, Texas.
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ART Books | Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice Children’s Book Debuts August 25th
From the Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers ABOUT THE BOOK Discover the incredible story of a young daughter of immigrants who would grow up to defend the rights of people everywhere in this moving picture book biography of Senator Kamala Harris. When Kamala Harris was young, she often accompanied her parents to civil rights…
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ART Archives | Weekly Rewind
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ART Activists | Guggenheim’s First Black Curator Goes Viral for Telling Her Truth
BLACK AUGUST 2020She Said: RETREAT! CONTEXT: In 2019, Chaédria LaBouvier became the first Black curator and the first Black woman to curate an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Read the curator’s message she posted on Twitter before the news dropped to the public some days later. 12:38 PM · Dec 22,…
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ART Virtual Exhibit | FLASH POINT at the San Francisco Art Institute
From the San Francisco Art Institute: The performance work captured in the videos is associated with Pinder’s cathartic 2019 Red Summer Road Trip, a journey he undertook on the 100th anniversary of the 1919 violence. Pinder explores the current racialized landscape with his crew of performers to see what has changed in a century—and what…
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