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At the 2023 TIFF Tribute Awards hosted at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto presenters Barry Jenkins and Chaz Ebert went off-script to emphasize how much it meant to hand the Ebert Director Award to Spike Lee. The Oscar-winning “Moonlight” director went first . . .
U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black The Ocean City Tabernacle welcomes the 62nd Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, Barry Black, to speak at the 8:30 a.m. traditional and 10:30 a.m. contemporary services Sunday, Sept. 3. A favorite Tabernacle speaker for many years, this is Chaplain Black’s first appearance in Ocean City since the pandemic. After 27 […]
U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black (Photo courtesy of Veterans Advantage) The Ocean City Tabernacle welcomes the 62nd Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, Barry Black, to speak at the 8:30 a.m. traditional and 10:30 a.m. contemporary services on Sunday, Sept. 3. A favorite Tabernacle speaker for many years, this . . […]
Barry C. Black recently completed 20 years as chaplain of the United States Senate in Washington, D.C. Black, who will turn 75 this year, arrived at that position after an extensive career as Navy chaplain. Black is the first military chaplain, the first Seventh-day Adventist, and the first African American to hold the office of […]
Whenever Barry Black gazes upon the photos of his predecessors in the office of the U.S. Senate chaplain, his own image immediately sticks out. “They go back so far that they start looking like James Madison and Benjamin Franklin. And all of the pictures are in black and white,” Black said. “Two of the pictures […]
Sanya Kantarovsky, Mandible, 2020, watercolor on paper, 14 3⁄4 × 11 1⁄4″. SANYA KANTAROVSKY is quintessentially a painter—someone who lives and breathes the materials, procedures, and heritage of the art. He’s someone who, according to the curator Elena Filipovic, “believes more in the utter necessity of painting than nearly anyone I’ve ever met.” So it […]
Barry Eichengreen, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, is a former senior policy adviser at the International Monetary Fund. He is the author of many books, including In Defence of Public Debt Friday 16 September marked 30 years since ‘Black Wednesday’, when the pound was ignominiously ejected from the exchange rate mechanism […]
Seeing Adam Pendleton’s exhibition “These Things We’ve Done Together” so soon after trying to digest “Who Is Queen?,” his overwhelming, densely information-laden show that filled the five-story-high Marron Family Atrium at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, came as something of a relief. “The [MoMA] exhibition presents itself as an accumulation of labor,” said Pendleton […]
After writing several books for adults through the years, U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black will debut with a book for children, A Prayer for Our Country: Words to Unite and Inspire Hope.
TORONTO — Several organizations dedicated to advancing Black talent onscreen say comments from documentarian Barry Avrich at the Canadian Screen Awards devalued the importance of Black creators telling Black stories. The Canadian filmmaker’s brief acceptance speech for best direction, factual, for his documentary “Oscar Peterson: Black + White” closed with the comment: “This is a […]