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Biden’s win in Georgia, though, showed what a determined Democratic ground game can do.
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Black Art Matters: ACE, Knight Foundation, MOCAD, Others Bring Cultural Touch to the 'Paris of the Midwest' | Arts and Culture | The Michigan Chronicle
Art is their why. Their reasoning behind promoting it and why visionaries are inspired by it. Art in Detroit, in particular Black art, is an evolving, timeless movement that includes homegrown painter LeRoy Foster, born in 1925, to the poets and artists of various media of today holding it down in
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Guggenheim Museum Names Naomi Beckwith As New Deputy Director
The Guggenheim Museum announced that they will be appointing Naomi Beckwith as its new Deputy Director and Chief Curator for the art venue.
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Connecticut US Navy Veterans Lung Cancer Advocate Urges a Navy Veteran Who Has Lung Cancer and Who had Heavy Exposure to Asbestos to Call the Lawyers at Karst von Oiste to Discuss Compensation-Please!
NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT , USA, June 12, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Connecticut US Navy Veterans Lung Cancer Advocate says, "We are urging a Navy Veteran or person in Connecticut who now has lung cancer and who decades ago had significant exposure to asbestos to know that the $30 billion dollar
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Aunt Becky Released From Prison And People Believe It’s A Pat On The Wrist
Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE Source: Bob D’Amico / Getty The Full House actress, Lori Loughlin, was released from prison Monday (Dec. 28) after serving nearly two months in…
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The Year 2020 Reflected in Art at the Black Creativity Art Exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry. | Chicago Defender
Held at the Museum of Science and Industry, The Black Creativity Art and Activism exhibition showcases some incredible and powerful images in response to the protests that occurred during the Summer of 2020. Since 1970, the Museum of Science and Industry has displayed the works of Black
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Local artist making waves with artwork - WS Chronicle
Art has been in April Reich’s heart for as long as she can remember. Her passion for art has led her to create pieces that are sought after by many art lovers and collectors. The post Local artist making waves with artwork appeared first on WS Chronicle.
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UK, Zim roots enrich my art: Mandiwanzira
UNITED KINGDOM-BASED Zimbabwean visual artist Karen Mandiwanzira (27) has vast knowledge of Zimbabwean and European culture and her art speaks to that. Being a female African visual artist in a male and white-dominated industry has not weighed her down, but kept her strong to use art to tell her
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Winners Announced For SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival
The digital reimagining of the 39th annual SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival, the university’s oldest tradition, featured celebrated judges, a new social media-selected category, and a vibrant virtual gallery on view at
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City seeks artist for public art project at BPL Roxbury branch - The Bay State Banner
Last week, the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture and the Boston Art Commission announced a search for an artist or artistic team to create permanent public artwork for the renovated Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public
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Queer | Art Announces $10,000 Annual Grant For Black Trans Women Who Are Visual Artists - Blavity
Queer | Art, an organization that strives to uplift LGBTQ+ artists, has announced a $10,000 annual grant for Black trans women and trans femmes who are visual artists.
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John Outterbridge, Who Turned Castoffs Into Sculpture, Dies at 87
Leftover wood, rags, rusted metal — all were his materials, and pieced together as assemblages, they told stories about history, about culture and about him.
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Harrison, Samuel (1818-1900)
Samuel Harrison, a minister, political activist, and former slave, became one of Berkshire County, Massachusetts’s most ardent abolitionists. Harrison was born enslaved in Philadelphia in 1818 but he and his mother were freed in 1821.  Shortly afterwards the widowed mother and her son moved to New
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Group hopes to add Vel Phillips statue by end of 2021 - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
There’s a lot about 2020 people would like to forget, but when it comes to the protests on civil rights, one group hopes 2021 will bring some of the changes they called for.
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'How Can I Make Sure That I'm Not The Only One?' Artist Helps Museum Diversify Collection
Museums are facing mounting pressure to make their collections more representative. At the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, one artist created a fund to acquire other pieces by under-represented artists.
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Study: COVID is Hurting Renters More Than Homeowners. Here’s How To Avoid Eviction
With some 50 million people renting and many perhaps incurring job or income misfortune because of the crisis,  enters in 11 American states and Puerto Rico are among those at the greatest risk of enduring housing instability,  according to a new analysis by The
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What Is No Longer In A Name: Rhode Island Official Docs Shed Racially Loaded Moniker
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Audiomack behind the scenes series featuring Caribbean Artists | New York Carib News
Rising stars with powerful stories get showcased in Audiomack's new "Hold a Medz" Instagram series. The impressive line-up curated by Audiomack's director of Reggae and Afrobeats, Tanya Lawson, debuted in early December as an opportunity to give Caribbean talent more exposure worldwide.
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William Henry Lane is credited as one of the most influential figures in the creation of American tap dance. Lane developed a unique style of using his body as a musical instrument, blending African-derived syncopated rhythms with movements of the Irish jig and reel. Lane’s melding of these
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Enslavement: 1619 to 1696
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NY, NJ and CT expand quarantine advisories for travelers from 8 more states with high coronavirus rates | The Atlanta Voice
Governors in the northeast, once considered the US epicenter of the coronavirus, are tightening restrictions in their states for travelers from areas of the country now seeing upward trends in positive coronavirus cases and
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SA records 16 726 new COVID-19 cases, 418 deaths
South Africa has recorded 16 726 New coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the past 24-hours, bringing the total number of cases to 1 073 887. The country has also recorded 418 new COVID-19 related fatalities, pushing the death toll to 28 887 In a statement, Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize says most of
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Illinois starts new year by expunging nearly 500,000 marijuana arrest records | The Crusader Newspaper Group
By Brooke Seipel, The Hill Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) said in an announcement hours before the start of the new year that his state had expunged nearly 500,000 marijuana-related convictions. The move follows Pritzker signing legislation in 2019 legalizing recreational marijuana use in the
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U.S. COVID-19 cases surpass 20 million as deaths mount
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Art historian Edmund B. Gaither, curator and director of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, has been a leading spokesman for the Black artist in Boston for over 25 years. He is internationally known as an advocate of African-American visual artists and as a contributor to
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