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Edna Lewis gathers ingredients in the garden behind Ellerslie Plantation west of Charlottesville, Virginia, 1975. John T. Hill Some children are obsessed with soldiers, dinosaurs, princesses. Edna Lewis grew up in love with food and the land that yielded it. “I loved walking barefoot behind my father in the newly ploughed furrow, carefully putting one […]
The former president has repeatedly used the disco group’s songs in his campaign rallies – but a video of a tribute act playing at a Mar-a-Lago party has reportedly prompted a cease and desist letter from the band’s manager. By James Robinson, Sky News reporter @thejournojames Tuesday 16 May 2023 09:54, UK Legendary US disco […]
By Ben Godfrey Correspondent, BBC Midlands Today 8 hours ago Image source, David Mensah / BCA Image caption, Artists gathered at a celebration of Britain’s black arts movement last autumn Wolverhampton in 1979. Let’s paint the canvas. A little over a decade on from Enoch Powell’s
By Ben Godfrey Correspondent, BBC Midlands Today 1 hour ago Image source, Wolverhampton Art Gallery Image caption, Artists gathered at a celebration of Britain’s black arts movement last autumn Wolverhampton in 1979. Let’s paint the canvas. A little over a decade on from Enoch Powell’s
Details of IGNITE Artistic Innovator projects Full descriptions of each Artistic Innovator project, beginning in Fall 2023 and concluding in Fall 2024, are below. More information about the IGNITE series, The Lindemann and the Perelman Arts District is available on the Brown Arts website. Carrie Mae Weems: “Varying Shades of Brown” (November to December 2023) […]
Nine members of the Yale faculty who have made important contributions across a range of fields, including economics, medicine, African American studies, and linguistics, are among the nearly 270 accomplished individuals elected new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Each year, the academy — an honorary society and independent policy organization with […]
Two decades ago, Vernice Armour became the first Black woman to serve as a combat pilot in the U.S. military. She served two tours in Iraq, piloting an attack helicopter above the desert to protect her fellow Marines on the ground. But now, Armour goes by FlyGirl, and she’s taken off on a far different […]
The William Grant Still Arts Center (WGSAC) presents its 15th Annual African American Composers’ Series (AACS) Bullerengue and Beyond: Learning the Palenques of the South West Caribbean Through Sound. This year, AACS is expanding the definition of American by looking beyond the borders of the United States and into communities along the Caribbean coast of […]
As the sun sets on another Black History Month, an anniversary of global significance was quietly commemorated in the United States that deserves so much more international recognition. In 2023, hip hop, arguably the greatest US contribution to global contemporary culture, celebrates 50 years of making us put our hands in the air like we […]
Hundreds of students and community members wandered College Avenue this weekend with unique passports in hand. They tasted a variety of international food – from traditional Eritrean himbasha to Thai tea – as the sounds of authentic Nepalese and Filipino music filled the air. On Saturday, April 1, the University of Georgia’s Department of International […]