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(NPR) – The African-American experience is reflected, right now, on the walls of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Exuberant dancing in Chicago. Laundry on a line in the nation’s capital. A girl smiling out from her father’s warm jacket — all captured in photographs, paintings and sculptures from the 1920s through the [...]
NEW YORK — New name. New borough. New arena. New logos, too. The Brooklyn Nets unveiled their brand-new logos on Monday morning. The Nets will have a black and white color scheme, which pays homage to the old New York subway signage system. The Nets will have a pair of primary logos. The first features [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett, a U.S. expatriate renowned for her dignified portrayals of African-American and Mexican women and who was barred from her home country for political activism during the McCarthy era, has died. She was 96. See Artwork Maria Antonieta Alvarez, Catlett’s daughter-in-law, said the artist died Monday in [...]
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen [...]
(Reuters) – Media icon Bill Cosby at 74 still looms larger than life over the American psyche. Emerging from a Philadelphia housing project, ultimately success followed success as a comedian, actor, producer, author, educator, musician and activist. Breaking U.S. television’s racial barrier with “I Spy” as the first African American to costar on a television [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — When author Walter Mosley announced the beloved Easy Rawlins detective series was likely at an end, he got an immediate and powerful reaction. “Oh, people were upset,” Mosley said with a smile, “just so upset. Really terribly upset — which is funny. I kept telling them, ‘There are 11 books. If [...]
By Roger Ebert All Kevin Clash ever wanted to do was make puppets. That came even before he fixated on Muppets. One day, he had an inspiration so urgent that it required cutting up his father’s coat. The result was a nice enough puppet, but when Kevin emerged from his creative frenzy, he realized that [...]
(Reuters) – First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday helped launched a new arts program to pick five student poets from high schools who will spend one year promoting poetry through readings, workshops and other activities. The National Student Poets program is created by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, of which the first [...]
(Architectural Digest) – Chicago has long been a city of Francophiles. More than a century ago the eminent Chicago School architect Daniel H. Burnham was so enamored with the French capital that his famous partially realized urban scheme Plan of Chicago became known as “Paris on the Prairie.” And the classicism of Paris’s École des [...]
By BRETT ZONGKER See the Videos WASHINGTON(AP) — Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, Sean Combs and Serena Williams now have a place in the National Portrait Gallery in a new show featuring leading black figures from entertainment, politics, sports and business. “The Black List” opens Friday featuring 50 large-scale photographs from Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ project that also [...]
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