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Celebrating The Lives of People of Color

An African American artist’s “remixing” of apartheid-era images is raising questions about appropriation | Quartz Africa

October 25, 2018Africa, African Art ...

Wandering around this year’s Johannesburg Arts Fair in September, photographer Graeme Williams stopped dead in front of a familiar image. The photograph of black South African children marching past a tank of white police officers was his—except that it wasn’t.

Detroit Institute of Arts Acquires Works From 2 Contemporary African-American Artists

May 25, 2016Uncategorized

The Detroit Institute of Arts has obtained two pieces of art done by contemporary African-American artists not previously represented in its collection.

Being Black at America’s Elite Public High Schools

May 19, 2016May 21, 2016Culture, Education

Martin Luther King Day in January—a day set aside to honor a man who fought against racial injustice—two black students at Boston Latin School (BLS) launched a social-media campaign to expose the racially hostile school climate they say exists at America’s first and oldest existing public school.