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Watch: James Baldwin – The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity (Full Recording)
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Rising Self: My Personal Experience with PROCESSION, The Art of Norman Lewis
From The Dallas Weekly During the summers, I flock to art exhibitions all over the country. It’s rather interesting that there is one museum from my hometown that I never visited before and felt like it was the opportune time to check out, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. Some…
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Toni Morrison Papers Now Available for Research
From News at Princeton: The Princeton University Library has announced that the major portion of the Toni Morrison Papers — part of the permanent library collections since 2014 — is open for research to University students, faculty and scholars worldwide as of this week. The papers — which are held in the Manuscripts Division, Department…
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VIEW: Muhammad Ali’s Original Art
From Original Art By Muhammad Ali
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Miles Davis & Robert Glasper – Everything’s Beautiful (Mini Documentary)
About the album: The album blends a diverse group of master takes and outtakes from across Miles’ incredible tenure with Columbia Records (1955-1985) with original reinterpretations of songs by Davis. From the obvious (riffs and passages within the catalog) to the obscure (samples of Miles’ in-studio instructions spoken after false starts), Glasper has built something unique but still…
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Upclose & Personal with Octavia Butler’s Journal
From The Blog of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: Butler created a body of work that helped launch a new genre called Afro-Futurism, which has become the focus of a remarkable amount of scholarly activity of late. After her death, The Huntington became the recipient of her papers, which arrived in 2008…
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The Libraries Are Appreciated, by Jacob Lawrence
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The Crisis {Magazine} Collection Archived Online
From the Modernist Journals Project: When W. E. B. Du Bois founded The Crisis in 1910, as the house magazine of the fledgling NAACP, he created what is arguably the most widely read and influential periodical about race and social injustice in U.S. history. Written for educated African-American readers, the magazine reached a truly national…
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Vintage Throwback: The Librarian
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“LEMONADE” by Beyonce
From Wikipedia: Lemonade is the sixth studio album by African-American singer Beyoncé, released on April 23, 2016, by Parkwood Entertainment and distributed through Columbia Records. The record is Beyoncé’s second “visual album”, following her eponymous 2013 record, and a concept album.[8] While its predecessor featured individual music videos for each track, Lemonade was accompanied upon…
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