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fromVulture
6 days ago

Joe Turner's Come Back, With Power Undimmed

August Wilson's unique voice in theater captures the spiritual ache of working-class lives, particularly in his play Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
Brooklyn
fromBrooklyn Paper
1 month ago

'Printing Black America' examines modern society through a historic lens at the Brooklyn Public Library * Brooklyn Paper

W.E.B. Du Bois's 1900 Data Portraits visualized Black American progress through infographics, now recontextualized in a 21st-century exhibition exploring ongoing racial inequities and sociological questions.
fromTime Out New York
8 months ago

NYC's monuments to Black Americans finally get the spotlight in this new book

In 2020, during the midst of COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter, the murder of George Floyd and a surge of Confederate statue removals, discussions about monuments became frequent in teacher David Felsen's New York City high school history class. The discussions struck up a series of questions-like who was the first Black American to have a monument in NYC, the total number of Black monuments in the city, or how many Black women have statues dedicated to them.
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fromKqed
9 months ago

Madison McFerrin Used Her Wedding Budget to Fund Her Breakup Album | KQED

The McFerrin name comes with a lot, and I think that that's incredible. It comes with a lot of Black American history, and I just want to carry that forward.
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