Curator Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi hopes to rouse a new generation of writers with “Chez Baldwin,” a 32-hour-long Spotify playlist based on Baldwin’s vinyl record collection. — Valentina Di Liscia, Hyperallergic In the early 1950s, James Baldwin moved to a Swiss village in the Alps with two Bessie Smith records and a typewriter under his arm. […]
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Black Gallerists Press Forward Despite a Market That Holds Them Back | The New York Times
By Robin Pogrebin, The New York Times As Art Basel opens online, African-American galleries are glaringly absent. Art Basel’s online viewing rooms went live on Thursday, presenting 281 of the world’s leading modern and contemporary art galleries. Not one of them is owned by an African-American. Despite the increasing attention being paid to black artists — many of whom […]
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The-Pieces-I-Am | The Philadelphia Sun
An intimate look at the award-winning writer, opening Friday, June 28 at the Ritz 5
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Winning Artists Announced for Monument to Shirley Chisholm, the First US Black Congresswoman | Hyperallergic
Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous have won the inaugural She Built NYC commission with their dynamic proposal, “Our Destiny, Our Democracy.”
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The Black Power Movement Gets a Permanent Display at the Oakland Museum | Hyperallergic
The museum has opened a permanent exhibition about Black activism in the Bay Area, which, contrary to public perception, was not always an accepting, progressive place.
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Akala: “I don’t enjoy explaining that black people are human beings” | New Statesman America
Anoosh Chakelian, New Statesman America [dropcap]In[/dropcap] late 2017, the rapper and political thinker Akala was driving in London, on his way to a meeting, when a police car pulled him over. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “Gang members drive cars like this,” the suspicious officer claimed, before an embarrassed colleague took him aside. She’d recognised Akala, whose activism, […]
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