Documentaries to concerts, more than a dozen ways to celebrate Black History Month in OKC
For four decades, the USA has officially celebrated Black History Month, but efforts to honor African American history in ...
San José Spotlight on MSN13d
Urbanowski: Art is personal and leadership matters
There is a personal relationship and experience we each have with art. Beyond the foundational role the arts play in culture, ...
African American literature provides a crucial counter-narrative to our history
This year’s observance of Black History Month carries forward the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance. However, ...
John Wilson left a monumental legacy. The museum world is finally carving out a place for it.
Wilson was headed for a building he’d never visited before — the US Capitol, where his bust of Martin Luther King Jr. would ...
Boulder Daily Camera on MSN2d
Another View: As diversity initiatives fall, remember that African American literature matters
This year’s observance of Black History Month carries forward the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance. However, ...
Zora Neale Hurston: Literary work posthumously earned her title 'Genius of the South'
Zora Neale Hurston's work didn't have the literary appreciation it now has until more than 15 years after her death in 1960.
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Glenn Ligon
Ligon appropriates texts from a variety of literary writers including Walt Whitman, Zora Neal Hurston, Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, as well from more ... (2010); Joyce Alexander ...
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Rashid Johnson
Invested in the artistic practices of both conceptualism and abstraction, his influences include literary figures such as Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston ... while returning to the portraiture that ...