Between emancipation and the civil rights era, a war of ideas and imagery helped to sow the seeds of the structural racism that endures in this country to this day. Continue Reading →
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What Might James Baldwin Say?
By Diane Richard
As a black girl growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the 1960’s, I was mesmerized whenever I saw James Baldwin on television, a dark skinned “Negro” man with piercing, animated eyes, exuding the confidence and intellect equal to any white person I had ever seen and heard before. Continue Reading →
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Souleo: DNA Tests Inspire New Photo Series
By Souleo
African art is sweeping through the mainstream art world as noted in recent examples from the Brooklyn Museum’s Disguise: Masks and Global African Art to the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Creative Africa exhibitions. Continue Reading →
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Attend Harlem Educational Activities Fund GALA 2015
Join the Harlem Education Activities Fund for the 25th anniversary Gala celebration with distinguished professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who will be presenting Roger Ferguson, President and CEO, TIAA-Cref with his award that night. Continue Reading →
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