African American literary and artistic achievements are showcased in a new exhibition, “Destined to Be Known: The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection at 75,” at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The exhibition runs Sept. 23–Dec. 10 in the library, 121 Wall St. It is free and open to the public.
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How The Salooni Project Has Created a Safe Space for African Women to Love Their Hair
Outside a TV monitor plays a tutorial on how to survive a white supremacist hairstyle.
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5 Designers Putting Zambian Fashion on the Map
A decade ago, Zambia’s textile and clothing industry had all but withered into the dust as privatization sapped the vigor of the industry and reduced the Zambian public to consuming cheap Chinese goods. However, the last few years have seen a resurgence in the fashion industry with more young designers bursting on the scene.
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The Black Panthers’ Overlooked Revolution
Fifty years later, four women who helped build the party look back on the less-attention-grabbing part of its history.
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Contemporary art exhibit probes African-American Identity
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.
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[Watch Video] What this MacArthur winner, an expert in African American Art History, plans to do with her grant
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.
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African-American Artists Broaden Understanding in Portraiture Exhibition
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.
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Coast Guard Looks To HBCUs To Increase Its Minority Ranks
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.
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Can Detroiters afford the New Detroit?
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.
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Esoteric Urbanism on display at Palette Gallery
Artist Talk with Kortez Planned for September 25, 2016.
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