A lot of planning goes into a seemingly candid photograph when an artist is at work. This fact becomes self-evident when you visit the current show at June Kelly Gallery titled “Alex Harsely: An Overview,” now on display through July 28.
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Nina Simone in Liberia | Guernica
The singer went to Africa, she said, in search of peace, or a husband, or maybe the feeling of home.
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Discovering Cuba | New York Amsterdam News
Nearly two years ago, President Obama eased relations and lifted sanctions over Cuba, allowing Americans to travel to the Caribbean island, only 90 miles south of us, for the first time in more than 60 years.
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Did You Know: Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company (1865-1874) – Afram News
The Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company, commonly referred to as The Freedmen’s Bank, was incorporated on March 3, 1865. It was created by the United States Congress along with the Freedmen’s Bureau to aid the freedmen in their transition from slavery to freedom.
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Review: In ‘The Defiant Ones,’ a Revealing Portrait of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine | The New York Times
Money is nice, fame is dizzying, and professional accolades can be rewarding. But the truest measurement of a life lived well — or at least strategically — may be the quality of the biographer you can persuade, or hire, to tell your story.
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Tenn. Lawmakers Seek to Strengthen Relationship with State HBCUs – Afro
Tennessee’s historically Black colleges and universities will soon have a team of advocates and an executive director in the state’s capital of Nashville.
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‘True Blood’ Actor Nelsan Ellis Dead at 39
NEW YORK — Actor Nelsan Ellis, best known for his memorable portrayal of Lafayette Reynolds on HBO’s “True Blood,” has died at the age of 39.
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‘I Am the Blues’ opens at Quad Cinema July 12 – New York Amsterdam News
“I Am the Blues,” directed by Daniel Cross available on VOD July 12, takes the viewer into the deep backroads of the South, visiting the authentic juke joints and listening to the stories of the people who play, live and know the real roots of the blues.
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Ava DuVernay Will Reteam With Netflix for a Series About the Central Park Five | Slate
When does Ava DuVernay find time to sleep? The filmmaker announced Thursday that in addition to the myriad of other projects she has in the works, she is also reteaming with Netflix for a new limited series about the Central Park Five.
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As data centers bloom, a century-old African American enclave is threatened | The Washington Post
For at least 118 years, the descendants of Livinia Blackburn Johnson have lived on the land in Northern Virginia that she and some other freed slaves acquired under an 1866 federal law that allowed them to own property.
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