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The African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA) was founded in 1968 by Jeff Donaldson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Wadsworth Jarrell and Gerald Williams ... throughout the African diaspora.Jeff Donaldson was the artist who brought the group together, as they first met at his request....

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Plans revealed for sculpture of historic Colorado Springs Cotton Club owner Fannie Mae Duncan

Colorado Springs Gazette 15 Nov 2018

Local residents on Wednesday got a first look at an artist’s portrayal of a beloved local African American businesswoman who will be recognized with a statue in downtown Colorado Springs next year. The statue of Duncan will be the the .......

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Driving Mr. Shirley: A review of ‘Green Book’

Republican American 15 Nov 2018

In 1962, the African-American concert pianist and recording artist Don Shirley embarked on a concert tour of the Midwest and the South, chauffeured by Italian-American Tony Vallelonga ... drinking glasses used by a couple of African-American repairmen working in the family kitchen....

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Review: Exhibitions by Kwame Brathwaite, Deana Lawson and Meleko Mokgosi challenge how blackness is represented

The Los Angeles Times 14 Nov 2018

Mokgosi, who was born in Botswana and lives in New York, dissects the “primitive” frame through which African art has been presented in the West ... Line by line, Mokgosi emphatically exposes the racism and white supremacy of the curators’ focus on famous European artists at the expense of the African art that influenced them....

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Young journalists document Dance Theatre of Harlem in Louisville, learn of the company’s important history

LEO Weekly 14 Nov 2018

Harlina Trumbo, artistic director of La’Nita Rocknettes School of Dance and a teacher at Lincoln Elementary, reflected on growing up as a young African-American ballet dancer in Louisville, and remembers the prejudice she and others faced because of skin color and body type....

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When it came to racism, the pen was Stan Lee's superpower

Journal Review 14 Nov 2018

Some bundles of Marvel Comics were sent back because some distributors weren't prepared for the Black Panther and the phenomenal super African kingdom of Wakanda developed by artist and co-creator Jack Kirby ... Crummell, the comic book artist, said she thinks representation for minorities and women in comic books is improving....

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When it came to racism, the pen was Stan Lee’s superpower

The Herald-Sun 14 Nov 2018

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Dancers that brought us the ‘Thriller’ parade celebrate 20 years as a ‘creative family.’

Lexington Herald-Leader 14 Nov 2018

The troupe will also be sharing the stage with Amel Tafsout and Dalia Carella, two guest artists who have influenced Rakadu’s unique style. Algerian dancer Tafsout is an international first source master dance artist of North African Maghreb as well as a poet, a storyteller, a singer, a socio-linguist and a dance anthropologist....

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Lyle Ashton Harris on Basquiat, Black Panther, and Afrofuturism’s Queer Roots

New York Magazine 14 Nov 2018

Lyle Ashton Harris’s solo exhibition, “Flash of the Spirit,” at Salon 94, features 12 medium- to large-scale, Fanonian self-portraits. In the images, the artist, in the nude wearing various West African masks, transforms himself into an enigmatic figure in lush landscapes, engaged in a spiritual performance. Some are filmic, Afrofuturistic ... ....

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Enhle Mbali partners with Global Citizen, reveals EP featuring HHP

Independent online (SA) 14 Nov 2018

“I'm shocked that I’m part of this amazing initiative ... View this post on Instagram ... @gcitizenza @glblctzn Purchase tickets on this link ... “We did an EP with African artists which we will be releasing a week before the gala dinner ... "The artists were so kind to let us sell the EP to help us raise funds...they don't want anything out of it but to give." ... ....

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Trump's Acting Attorney General was an active participant in a scam company that marketed "masculine toilets"

Boing Boing 14 Nov 2018

Donald Trump fired Jeff Sessions and replaced him with Matthew Whitaker, a giant tool who thinks Biblical law should prevail in America's courtrooms. He's also a scammer ... Whitaker served on World Patent Marketing's advisory board alongside a mixed-martial artist, a failed Central African Republic politician, and other motley characters ... (via JWZ)....

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Cassper Nyovest calls on fans to support local music

Independent online (SA) 13 Nov 2018

The idea, according to Nyovest, it to get artists to perform at sold out venues across country, where locals have come out in their numbers to support South African artists. He said South Africans are prepared to spend up to R1000 (or more) to watch international artists yet they will not spend R100 to see a local artist performing....

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Honoring a printmaker who fled Lithuania and had a profound influence on black artists in Philly

Philadelphia Daily News 13 Nov 2018

Artist John Dowell, whose manipulated photographs exploring cotton are currently on view at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, studied with Viesulas at Tyler in the 1960s ... Artist John Dowell exposes cotton's terrible beauty at the African American Museum in Philadelphia ... It's not that Romas sought out young African American artists....