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Constance Clayton s huge gift to PAFA of works by black artists is now on display

Constance Clayton’s huge gift to PAFA of works by black artists is now on display Stephan Salisbury, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TOM GRALISH/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Former school superintendent Constance Clayton in 2015 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition Represent: 200 Years of African American Art. Clayton founded that museum s African American Collections Committee and lobbied for the exhibit for years. The exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts of more than 70 works by African American artists from the collection of Constance E. Clayton, which opens Friday and runs through July 12, has the aura of a family meal around the dinner table. These are works of art from her home.

How Philly s school names help tell its Black history

WHYY By Philadelphia’s school buildings are a tribute to its past. That’s true of the structures themselves, some of which date back over a century. But it’s also a nod to the people commemorated in the names of those school buildings. Those names in ways big and small help tell the city’s history. The vast majority of public schools in the city are named after white men. (The school-namers of yore were partial to Union Civil War soldiers and former school board officials.) Still, in a city that didn’t have a statue of a Black person on public land until 2017, school buildings are among the rare public spaces with any echo of Philadelphia’s Black history.

On Martin Luther King Day, remember the uncompromising politics of Black economist Sadie Alexander

On Martin Luther King Day, remember the uncompromising politics of Black economist Sadie Alexander
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