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Tracing the Real Betty Boop back to a Notorious Bootlegger’s Club in 1920s Harlem | Messy Nessy Chic

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Natalie McKane, Messy Nessy Chic 1920’s in Paris may have been roaring, but over in Harlem, they were stomping. New York’s playground was not short of an underground boozer, but there was one place in particular that dominated the scene; The Cotton Club. Patron Saint of jazz, notorious bootlegging and the home of the original…

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Thomas Allen Harris Goes Through a Lens Darkly | PBS.Org

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The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People probes the recesses of American history through images that have been suppressed, forgotten, and lost.

How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ | The New York Times

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“It’s like reading a fairy tale book. I see the names of beauty schools and men’s clubs and taverns, and I think, ‘What does that place look like?’”

Capturing the Civil Rights Era Through the Lens of Gordon Parks | Daily Beast

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Gordon Parks captured the beauty, horror, and complexities behind the lives of those who lived during the Civil Rights Era.

How the black radical female artists of the ’60s and ’70s made art that speaks to today’s politics | Los Angeles Times

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All of it points to the unique issues black women artists faced (and continue to face) as women and artists in a society in which race plays a defining role.

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New Jimi Hendrix Album with Unreleased Songs Coming in March | AFRO

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NEW YORK (AP) — Unreleased songs recorded by Jimi Hendrix between 1968 and 1970 will be released next year.

Studio Portraits of African-American People in the Second Half of the 19th Century | Vintage Everyday

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In documenting the history and experience of African-Americans, the Simpson collection also records and depicts acts of racism, oppression, and violence; though they are sometimes unpleasant and even shocking, such materials represent significant aspects America’s complicated history.

Carmen de Lavallade is 86 and still the best dancer in the room | The Washington Post

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De Lavallade’s ability to express psychological meaning through her body, to disappear inside the choreography and mold herself to wildly different artistic styles, has been her life’s work.

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‘The Green Book of South Carolina’ – New York Amsterdam News

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The South Carolina African-American Heritage Commission has recently launched an exciting new mobile travel guide, “The Green Book of South Carolina,” to help residents and visitors from all over the world navigate to the more than 300 African-American cultural sites across the state’s 46 counties.