• ART Films | Watch The Black Panthers: The Revolutionary Artist Emory Douglas

    From Open Culture: Article Written by Ted Mills Known as the Revolutionary Artist by his fellow Black Panthers and officially titled their Minister of Culture, Emory Douglas provided the striking visuals and designed the layout to the newspaper that bore the organization’s name when it premiered in 1967. In this short but insightful documentary by the outfit known as Dress Code, Douglas…

  • ART News | Meet Arthur Lewis, African American Art Connoisseur

    From ART | library deco: Writer Essence Harden at Artsy.net interviews world-renowned African American art collector Arthur Lewis. She provides an intricate look and perspective about the Creative Director of UTA Fine Arts in Los Angeles, California’s, Black art collection and contributions to the visual arts world. Read more about Arthur Lewis’ journey in collecting…

  • ART News | Free Registration Now Open: Austin African American (Virtual) Book Festival

    Best selling authors Isabel Wilkerson and Damon Tweedy share stories of resilience and triumph at the Austin African American Book Festival. New York Times bestselling authors Isabel Wilkerson and Dr. Damon Tweedy will head up the fourteenth annual Austin African American book festival. The event will be held on June 27, 10 a.m. to 2…

  • ART Film | Watch “Just Mercy” for Free Until June 30th

    From ART | library deco: In response to current events, Warner Bros. is offering free streaming rentals of its film “Just Mercy,” from the director Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx. Based on a true story, the movie focuses on the life of the civil-rights attorney Bryan Stevenson (Michael B.…

  • ART Education | NOW AVAILABLE: When They See Us Learning Companion

    Now Available From Library Journal: Award-winning director/filmmaker Ava DuVernay has added resources for classrooms and independent study to her productions. DuVernay’s company ARRAYnow is launching an initiative that will offer free learning guides for students to accompany TV and film productions. The initiative, ARRAY101, was created in partnership with Participant, a media company “dedicated to entertainment that inspires audiences to engage…

  • Curating Notes Vol.2

    Entering this new decade these words written by poet, Sonia Sonchaz, “The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the ‘Negro’s’ reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images,” will always resonate in mind as the definition of 2020. In the past four months, I have bore witness by the minute in quarantine (we are…

  • ART Film: WHUT – ONLINE FILM SCREENING – East Lake Meadows

    From WHUT Howard University Television: Join WHUT for a FREE ONLINE Film Screening of East Lake Meadows – A Public Housing Story by Ken Burns on June 4th 2020 In October of 1970, the Atlanta Housing Authority opened a public housing community on the edge of Atlanta called East Lake Meadows. Over the next 25…

  • ART Music: The Library of Congress to Debut Citizen DJ Summer 2020

    Coming Summer 2020 Free for For DJ’s to Remix: Introducing the Citizen Project by the Library of Congress

  • ART Music | Nina Simone – Color Is A Beautiful Thing

    From ART | library deco: Fans of Nina Simone will feel love from all corners of the universe with the newly released animated visual “Color Is A Beautiful Thing” featuring the musical genius’ work. The accomplished singer, civil rights leader, and mentor to many revisits themes about women, race, and inequities she sang about on…

  • #freebooks: Part II, Ruth E. Carter’s Coloring Pages

    From ART | library deco: The Academy Museum partnered with Academy Award®–winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter to debut her coloring illustrations. You are in a for a free treat! The pages are published weekly via the Academy Museum’s website and are free to download at your leisure. Download the second set released this week…