Built like a family photo album with close to 70 pieces by 50 artists, this group exhibition demonstrates the diversity and nuisance within narratives of tradition, consanguinity, and origin.
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South African Photographer of Iconic Protest Image Dies | AFRO
Tributes are being paid following the death of Sam Nzima, the South African photographer who took the iconic image of a Black high school student carrying a fatally wounded fellow pupil away from the gunfire of apartheid police in 1976.
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Williams didn’t just change, she grew; the brilliant ideas that were present in her earlier work expanded on contact with new musical realms, and she found herself doubling back on prior resistance to the strongest and most difficult new styles to incorporate both their freedom and their complexity into her playing.
Read MoreThe Search for Creativity with Questlove | The Washington Informer
“I am guided as much by the song I am playing as [I am by] the people around me — not to mention the people I am modeling myself on, intentionally…”
Read More‘Black Mother’ Explores the Underbelly of Jamaica | AFRO
Black Mother is Allah’s second feature film although many people have seen his work on Beyoncé’s visual album “Lemonade,” on which he is credited as a cinematographer.
Read MoreRamsey Lewis announces retirement | JAZZIZ
Pianist and funk fusion pioneer Ramsey Lewis has announced that he is to retire from touring.
Read MoreImages of Disappearing Jobs | The Atlantic
On May Day, these portraits provide a glimpse of a wide array of jobs that are vanishing under the pressures of automation, inexpensive mass production, and other technological and societal changes.
Read MoreThe passing of artist Harry L. Davis | Black Art In America
“It’s with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of our dear friend and renowned artist Harry L. Davis. He was a warrior, a gentle giant, and a warm spirit…R.I.P.
Read MoreClassical Music Orgs Launch Initiative to Diversify Orchestras | Colorlines
The National Alliance for Audition Support will develop mentorship and audition programs to help more Black and Latinx classical musicians land spots in the United States’ predominantly White orchestras.
Read More‘Boom For Real’ Paints a Portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat As a Young Man | Colorlines
The upcoming documentary explores Basquiat’s formative teenage years in New York City.
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