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A Spotlight On Black Artists On World Art Day


By Cherranda Smith
Apr 15, 2021
World Art Day was started in 1998 as a way to encourage others to express creativity and celebrate the arts. It was founded by the group, Artists for A Better World International and coincides with the birthday of world-renowned artist
Leonardo Da Vinci. 
On this day, the
Black Information Network is spotlighting Black artists who have captured Black life, added to our cultural storehouses, and beautified our communities, digitally and in real life. 
The lasting impact of Black people on the arts is immeasurable. Blending traditions, current events, history, shared lived experience, Black artists weave together our uniqueness, uniting it on the canvas, film, clay, print, and a host of other media.  ....

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Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance


Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/t-magazine/black-spirituals-poetry-resistance.html
Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance
These songs the oldest musical expressions of the slave experience in this country still have a lot to teach us about how we think about death and dignity.
Lillian Richter’s “Spirituals” (circa 1935-43).Credit.Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library
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Ten years ago, I worked as a researcher, conducting oral-history interviews for a project with the Weeksville Heritage Center. Weeksville is an extraordinary museum in central Brooklyn dedicated to the history of the free Black community that was founded there in 1838, when a Black stevedore named James Weeks first purchased the property. This occurred eleven years after Emancipation in New York, as ....

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