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By Alan Light The revolution will not go better with Coke The revolution will not fight the germs that cause bad breath The revolution will put you in the driver’s seat The revolution will not be televised IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE, almost 40 long years after he wrote these immortal lyrics, and it’s a workday for Gil Scott-Heron. On this... »
Lucille Clifton, award-winning poet, dies at 73
Amazon.com Widgets BALTIMORE – Lucille Clifton, a National Book Award-winning poet and Pulitzer finalist, has died. She was 73. Clifton’s sister, Elaine Philip of Buffalo, N.Y., said the former poet laureate of Maryland passed away Saturday morning at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. Philip said the cause of death was unclear but Clifton was hospitalized... »
Painter: Archibald Motley (1891-1981)
Born in 1891 in New Orleans and raised in Chicago, Motley knew as a child that he wanted to be an artist. He studied art at the Institute of Chicago and in 1928, became the second African American artist to have a solo exhibition in New York City. Motley's early artistic endeavors include "Old... »
The White Beauty Myth (Video)
The White Beauty Myth (Documentary About Minorities In U.K. Wanting To Be White) »
Lois Mailou Jones, Painter and Teacher
By HOLLAND COTTER Published: June 13, 1998 Lois Mailou Jones, an American painter and an art teacher for almost a half century at Howard University in Washington, died at her home in Washington on Tuesday. She was 92. Ms. Jones was an iconic figure, and an important historic link in a path-breaking generation of black American... »
