Work by a renowned Yakima-born artist — the late Thelma Johnson Streat — again has taken center stage, this time at the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
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Where My Girls At?: 28+ Opportunities to See and Support the Work of Black Female Artists and Curators This Fall
IT WAS A GREAT DAY IN HARLEM, a celebration of two important women in art—Alma Thomas (1891-1978) and Thelma Golden. The artist and the director of the Studio Museum in Harlem were both born Sept. 22. Thomas would have been 125. To mark the milestone, the Studio Museum, which is currently presenting an exhibition of Thomas’s paintings and drawings, had a birthday party. The special breakfast and exhibition viewing was hosted by Golden.
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Hurricane Matthew Makes Old Problems Worse for Haitians
The first reports to arrive were of vast flooding and destruction, rivers of brown water pulsing through streets and homes shorn of tin roofs.
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A First Look as Haiti Emerges from Hurricane Matthew
As the category 4 storm barrels north across the Caribbean, photographs show the destruction in its wake.
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She has lost four sons to gun violence. No one has gone to prison. Do these black lives matter?
BY Petula Dvorak PUB The Washington Post [perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]The fourth time around, it doesn’t get any easier to bury a son lost to gun violence.[/perfectpullquote]Phyllis Gray is 53 and tired. Tired of the calls, tired of the funerals, tired of T-shirts with the faces of four dead sons. Tired of no […]
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Jamaica, Long Opposed to Marijuana, Now Wants to Cash In on It
Jamaica has long bemoaned its reputation as the land of ganja.
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American Honey Is a New Indie Classic
Andrea Arnold’s new film follows a crew of young drifters through the recession-struck heartland.
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Rose Library Opens African American Art Exhibit
A multimedia exhibition of African American art titled “Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism, and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch,” opened Thursday, Sept. 15, in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library.
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Wisconsin Is Systematically Failing to Provide the Photo IDs Required to Vote in November
New recordings from the DMV show how the state is continuing to disenfranchise black voters.
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The Nigerian artist who is exploding the myth of the ‘authentic African experience’
Njideka Akunyili Crosby was 16 before she took her first art class. She talks about why most of the figures in her paintings appear to be doing nothing at all, Mean Girls at Yale, and the debt she owes Harlem’s Studio Museum
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