Ginger Smock and the Los Angeles Jazz Scene
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Remembering Gwen Patton, Activist and Theorist – Black Perspectives
“Ideas are powerful,” Dr. Gwendolyn Patton used to say when she talked to the younger generation about civil rights and political organizing.
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A Crowdfunding Effort Launches to Commemorate Khadija Saye, Artist Killed in London Inferno – Hyperallergic
The campaign, launched by three friends and supporters of Saye’s, aims to raise £50,000 to promote the work of other young artists.
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Newly Uncovered Recordings Find Thelonious Monk In His Prime – NPR
In 1959, the peak of his playing years, Thelonious Monk did something he’d never done before: record music for a film.
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Dr. Dre Pledges $10M for Compton High Performing Arts Center – Afro
COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — Dr. Dre is pledging $10 million toward the construction of a performing arts center at Compton High School.
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‘Instill & Inspire’: African-American artists of the 20th century in the spotlight – Trib Live
The exhibit “Instill & Inspire,” currently on display at the August Wilson Center in Pittsburgh, contains works by some of the most highly regarded African-American artists of the 20th century.
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She changed the way America saw black people – New York Post
When Ming Smith was a teenager in 1960s Columbus, Ohio, her high-school counselor told the Detroit native to abandon her ambitions.
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The African-American artists exciting savvy collectors – Financial Times (FT)
A new appreciation of African-American art by auction houses, museums and prestigious galleries – spurred on by the Obamas’ legacy – is exciting an international audience. Buy before prices soar, says Francesca Gavin.
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Kerry James Marshall addresses the absence of blackness – San Diego Reader
We’re the violators of their culture of leisure.
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The most important black woman sculptor of the 20th century deserves more recognition – Timeline
Unfortunately, little of her work survives.
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