Abbey Lincoln
A tour of Africa in 1972 resulted in the adoption of two more names for Abbey Lincoln. From President Sekou Toure of Guinea she received the name Aminata, denoting a “divine mother.” The Minister of Information, Mr. Sacomi, of Zaire, ...
Posted Wednesday, April 28th 2010 at 5:55AM
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The Parable of the Sower
Within the first dozen pages of Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler , readers encounter a typical family armed with guns on their way to church, a headless corpse, a naked homeless woman, a community walled in by te ...
Posted Wednesday, April 28th 2010 at 5:51AM
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Abigail B. Lind reports in the Harvard Crimson that, on Thursday, Catherine B. Lord—a visual artist, curator, and writer focusing on queer theory, feminist history, and colonialism—will receive the Spring 2010 Harvard Arts Medal.
Within a matter o ...
Posted Wednesday, April 28th 2010 at 5:47AM
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Louis Delsarte was born in Brooklyn New York in 1944. He earned a BFA from Pratt institute in 1977.
He has been honored as artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Howard University in DC, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Bob Blackburn P ...
Posted Wednesday, April 28th 2010 at 5:45AM
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Dr. Dorothy I. Height is laid to rest this week after decades of tireless work for the advancement of Civil Rights for all. May the work she did, speak for her.
1912 ~ 2010
Funeral Arrangements for Dr. Dorothy I. Height
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Posted Tuesday, April 27th 2010 at 8:13PM
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WASHINGTON – AstraZeneca LP and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP will pay $520 million to resolve allegations that AstraZeneca illegally marketed the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel for uses not approved as safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administ ...
Posted Tuesday, April 27th 2010 at 7:56PM
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NAMI Maryland Events Sponsors its Annual NAMIWALK 2010 (There will be walk-a-thons all across the country...look up the date and time in your country and join in a great cause)!
Maryland Routes and Directions for Druid Hill Park and College Park:
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Posted Tuesday, April 27th 2010 at 11:21AM
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ADEMOLA OLUGEBEFOLA the man, the artist, the living legend....Caribbean, African American (Harlem Renaissance) and Yoruba inspired Artwork. Internationally known and highly acclaimed Artist....Google him and experience his devotion and appreciation f ...
Posted Sunday, April 25th 2010 at 2:33PM
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Purvis Young, a self-taught painter who emerged from prison as a young man and by dint of his striking, expressionist vision of urban life and mammoth output over more than three decades transformed a forgotten Miami neighborhood into a destination f ...
Posted Sunday, April 25th 2010 at 7:49AM
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Biography
One of the most controversial African-American artists working today, Renee Cox has used her own body, both nude and clothed, to celebrate black womanhood and criticize our racist and sexist society.
She was born on October 16, 1960, ...
Posted Saturday, April 24th 2010 at 6:56AM
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We broadcast content relating to the Visual Arts. Behind the scene and on the scene of the visual artists. In their studios and at art galleries across the nation.
Broadcasting the Visual Arts
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Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 8:31AM
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Four months since my last post, what's cookin?
I been sort of recalibrating things, juggling things and making some new discoveries. First I discovered http://www.blacksciencefictionsociety.com. If you are into Black sci-fi of any flavor, comic bo ...
Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 8:14AM
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By HOLLAND COTTER
Published: April 15, 2010
DETROIT — For centuries Euro-American eyes have been trained on Africa. We’ve scanned it from afar, surveyed it up close, put it behind glass; looked and looked, wonderingly, acquisitively, disdainfull ...
Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 6:51AM
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Howard Dodson, whose wide-ranging acquisitions and major exhibitions have raised the profile of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and burnished its reputation as the premier institution of its kind, plans to retire as its director in ...
Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 5:22AM
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Currently running at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the photographic exhibit Posing Beauty in African-American Culture takes a look at the evolution of clothing and notions of beauty in the black community. Featuring work by such esteemed photographers ...
Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 5:10AM
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A two-day sale featuring over 1,000 lots of self-taught art, Southern folk pottery, outsider art, African-American decorative arts, quilts, circus art, new discoveries, major collections and more will be held May 1-2 by Slotin Auction in Buford, Ga.
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Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 5:02AM
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A collaborative piece by two female artist living in the South paying respect to an inherited culture, embracing who we've become over time and travel. Margo Candelario & Margaret Warfield ...
Posted Monday, April 19th 2010 at 6:17AM
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A Collage of events that shaped life within the African American Community during the 70's & 80's . ...
Posted Monday, April 19th 2010 at 5:45AM
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Struggle between relationships. Couples are never alone, past relations and encounters always affect the present. ...
Posted Monday, April 19th 2010 at 5:28AM
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