The current furor over the Brooklyn Museum’s appointment of a white woman to oversee the museum’s African Art collection is not surprising or infuriating to Steven Nelson. Nelson is an African American art historian at UCLA who specializes in African art, and he says, “There are very few of us in the field.”
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Synonymous with Chicago is the DuSable Museum, and inseparably linking them is Margaret Burroughs.
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