In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month, the Museum of the City of New York is exhibiting a portrait of Dr. Aubré de Lambert Maynard, by artist Yun Gee. Dr. Maynard is best remembered today for his role in helping to save Dr. King life’s after an assassination attempt in […]
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New Digital Project: First Blacks in the Americas:
LINK: “I can’t believe we were publishing this in 1973!”
via Marvel celebrates fifty years of Black Panther at NYCC — Dark Matters
by Patrick Vernon After my recent article on the absence of black historians and the growing network of independent black scholars, I felt I wanted to share one of my personal heroes who embodies the characteristics and challenges that black historians face today. This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Joel Augustus Rogers, […]
by Karen Williams The first time that I saw a photograph of the Zwarte Piet celebrations in the Netherlands, the door to questions of slavery in my own life swung wide open. There – right there – looking back at me was the representation of my personal history, and the long history of Dutch slavery […]
via Zwarte Piet is a product of the Netherlands’ long involvement in the slave trade — Media Diversified
Review of Kienholz’s work, including the important anti-racist installation of 1969-72,
Five-Car Stud
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