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Celebrating The Lives of People of Color

The Black Panthers’ Overlooked Revolution

September 23, 2016September 24, 2016African American History, Black Panther Party ...

Fifty years later, four women who helped build the party look back on the less-attention-grabbing part of its history.

Contemporary art exhibit probes African-American Identity

September 23, 2016African American Art, African American History ...

Many people recognize “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” as the title of an 1969 autobiographical novel by Maya Angelou, but Austin artist Deborah Roberts points to the original author of the phrase, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, as the inspiration for the smart group exhibition she’s organized at the George Washington Carver Museum.

[Watch Video] What this MacArthur winner, an expert in African American Art History, plans to do with her grant

September 23, 2016African American Art, African American History ...

Kellie Jones wants a new desk. That was the first thing the art historian and curator decided she would buy with the grant she will receive as one of 23 MacArthur Fellowship recipients announced Wednesday night.

African-American Artists Broaden Understanding in Portraiture Exhibition

September 22, 2016September 22, 2016African American Art, KOLUMN ...

For too long, certain segments of the general population have been forced to look at themselves through other people’s eyes and, consequently, bind themselves to other people’s expectations.

Coast Guard Looks To HBCUs To Increase Its Minority Ranks

September 22, 2016African American Veterans, KOLUMN ...

As one the nation’s largest Coast Guard air stations announced plans to increase minority enrollment by working with Elizabeth City State University, Norfolk State University said it will help students who are interested in a career with the Coast Guard.

Can Detroiters afford the New Detroit?

September 22, 2016September 22, 2016African American Commuities, African American Families ...

The question, as Councilperson Mary Sheffield sees it, is not whether rapid development in and around downtown Detroit is a good thing for the city, because after so many years of drought, few would argue that this newfound desire to build big and beautiful things in Detroit is a bad idea. Detroit could use some big and beautiful things. Small ones too.