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Pictured is the art exhibit at the Tri-Church Parish in Brocton. BROCTON — Brocton’s Art Discovery program is displaying its latest exhibit, which is an artistic history that combines both February’s Black History Month and March’s Women’s History Month. Instead of doing two different exhibits for each month, the architect of the Art Discovery program, Lucy Andrus, said that this program will celebrate and recognize pieces of both. “For the Women’s History component, we’re focusing on the concept of women’s handwork and its multiple layers of meaning and purpose,” Andrus said. “For the Black History aspect, we’re focusing on women who have made significant achievements in the arts, humanities, science, business, and politics. Each woman is pictured along with a description of her achievements and contributions. “
It was a testimony to freedom: “Can I then but pray,” she wrote, “Others may never feel tyrannic sway?” You might know her as the woman forever poised in thought at Boston’s Women’s Memorial between Fairfield and Gloucester Streets on Commonwealth Ave. What each passerby might not know is the extraordinary story she has shared with her flawlessly balanced feather quill — and the stories she continues to inspire. America’s first Black poet, Phillis Wheatley was born on May 8, 1753, in The Gambia where she grew up until she was kidnapped at about age 7 or 8. After crossing the Middle Passage on a slave ship, she arrived in Boston where John Wheatley bought her from the city’s slave market to be a servant for his wife Susannah Wheatley.
“If we ever hope to bridge the chasms that colorism has etched, we all need to openly and intently address its murky past. Only then will we be able to truly reimagine a social landscape free of racist thinking, and thus free from the fetters of light-skin privilege.”
New textbook illuminates African American scholars’ centuries-long crusade for true democracy “African American Political Thought,” co-edited by Brown political scientist Melvin Rogers, reveals the outsize impact many Black thinkers, from Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, have had on American society. Photo courtesy of Melvin Rogers PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Readers who browse the politics section of a bookstore will find countless anthologies of essays and speeches by American political thinkers. But most have one thing in common: They focus chiefly on white, wealthy and powerful intellectuals and barely skim the surface of African American political thought. Melvin Rogers, an associate professor of political science at Brown University, has long wished he could change that fact. For decades, he felt someone needed to create a comprehensive textbook chronicling the societal contributions of influential African American thinkers through the centuries, from early writers such as Phillis Wheatley to present-day scholars such as Clarence Thomas.
50 Black Writers Whose Impact Went Beyond the Page By Rachel Cavanaugh, Stacker News On 2/23/21 at 8:00 PM EST Harris & Ewing/Interim Archives/Getty African American authors have created a rich body of literature: fiction and nonfiction, essays, poetry, scholarly articles and more. The narratives they've added to American storytelling have shifted perspectives and prompted fresh conversations; their writing has shaped how the Black experience is viewed and understood in America by readers of all races and backgrounds. In the 19th century, African American literature was driven by narratives of slavery, many told from the perspective of escaped slaves such as Harriet Jacobs or Frederick Douglass. In the 1920s, as Black artists and intellectuals emerged following the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance produced a generation of authors who addressed issues of racism and segregation. By the middle of the century, Black authors played an important role in laying the foundation for political movements such as civil rights, Black power, and Black nationalism. Many feminist authors, like Mary Ann Weathers and Audre Lorde, emerged as well. Black feminist thinkers established the mode of analysis of intersectionality, laying an important foundation for the modern feminist movement.
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