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Read Mary J. Blige’s Heartfelt Nina Simone Rock Hall Induction Speech | Rolling Stone
Blige honors Simone for singing songs “about injustice, struggle, and black life [that] resonate to this day”
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LISTEN: NPR Traces Black and Grey Realism Tattooing to Mexican-American East L.A. | Colorlines
World-famous tattoo artists Freddy Negrete and Chuey Quintanar discuss the progression of their discipline.
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Bringing the World of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Briefly, to Stage | The New York Times
Mr. Coates and Ms. Forbes will reconvene in Harlem as she adapts and directs the world premiere stage adaptation of “Between the World and Me” at the Apollo Theater.
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Black Love Experience Promises a Passport to Wakanda in Southeast | AFRO
In a small corner of Anacostia where the vestiges of D.C.’s Chocolate City remain, lovers of everything black, beautiful and wondrous gathered to dance, mingle and heal.
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Little Girl Mesmerized by Michelle Obama Portrait Thinks She’s ‘a Queen’ | The Cut
Turns out that adorable little girl who stood open-mouthed in front of Michelle Obama’s official portrait didn’t know she was looking at a former First Lady — she thought she was looking at a queen.
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Rejecting Ageism: How 55-Year-Old Belinda Becker Became a DJ | The Iconic
“It’s as if the older you get, the less you are revered or respected. That doesn’t make sense to me. It should be the opposite.”
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Welcoming a Black Female Composer Into the Canon. Finally. | The New York Times
“Florence Price is a representation in music of what it means to be a black artist living within a white canon and trying to work within the classical realm…”
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Whose Nation? The Art of Black Power | The New York Review of Books
“Soul of a Nation,” which originated at the Tate Modern in London, features some 170 works made by black artists between 1963 and 1983.
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Honoring Black Artists in Light and Shadow | The New York Times
“It’s not just an image of a person,”
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