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Duck Soup Cinema: 1926 temperance-themed melodrama is the only surviving film by Colored Players Film Corporation of Philadelphia; with organ accompaniment by Jelani Eddington, 2 & 7 pm. $9.

Tinashe Mushakavanhu’s profile on The Conversation

We interview Counterspace architect and founder Sumayya Vally, who talks about her dreams, inspiration, current reading list, and Johannesburg

Dambudzo Marechera wrote The House of Hunger , in 1978, inspiring a generation of Zimbabweans. (Photograph by Ernst Schade via Humboldt University, courtesy of The Conversation) My first encounter with Dambudzo Marechera is at assembly at an out-of-the-way rural boarding school. I was twelve. At this point I don’t know his story or reputations. His gender is fluid. For a while he stayed a woman in my imagination. He is not a man. Androgynous. – Tinashe Mushakavanhu    ...

In a Bracing Exhibition at the Guggenheim, Artists Challenge the Way History Is Told Ashley James’s group show “Off the Record” exemplifies how curators with strong vision might reform institutions from within. Leslie Hewitt, Reviews - May 28, 2021 When Sadie Barnette was a kid growing up in Oakland, California, her father didn’t talk much about his time in the Black Panther Party. It’s possible he simply had other things to say. Rodney Barnette, who is now in his late seventies, h...