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Wednesday, 22 January 2020

African

African(s) may refer to:

Anything from or pertaining to Africa:

African people, people who live in Africa or trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa
- Ethnic groups of Africa
African cuisine
African culture
African languages
African music

African people, people who live in Africa or trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa

Ethnic groups of Africa

Ethnic groups of Africa

African grey parrot, an Old World parrot

Books and radio

The African (short story), autobiographical story by French author J. M. G. Le Clézio

The Africans (radio program)

Music

"African" a song by Peter Tosh from his 1977 album Equal Rights (album)

The Africans (band)

Publishing

African Business, a monthly magazine covering business events across Africa

African Communist, a political magazine published in Johannesburg

African Film (magazine), Nigerian weekly magazine

Latest News for: African artists

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Public radio host Marco Werman's Top 5 albums featuring African artists

Charleston City Paper 22 Jan 2020

click to enlarge Pat Thomas and Kwashibu Area Band Obiaa! .......

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Martine Syms and Melvin Edwards Among United States Artists Grant Award Winners

New York Observer 22 Jan 2020

Among the visual artists named in this year’s class of fellows are Melvin Edwards, who became the first African American sculptor to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1970, and Martine Syms, a Los Angeles-based “conceptual entrepreneur” who uses her artwork to interrogate disparate representations of blackness....

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The beauty in struggle: Paintings reunited after 60 years by Peabody Essex Museum

Newburyport Daily News 22 Jan 2020

Jacob Lawrence, who died in 2000, was “one of the great modern American artists of the 20th century,” Bailly said ... The exhibit is accompanied by works from three contemporary African American artists, Derrick Adams, Bethany Collins and Hank Willis Thomas, who were inspired by Lawrence’s example....

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Learning Lab and Cuyahoga arts tax are pairing artists and nonprofits for public art projects

Cleveland 22 Jan 2020

CLEVELAND, Ohio--For the second time, Cuyahoga County art funds will help 12 artists make public art for 12 nonprofit groups ... Also today, at Trinity Cathedral, center members led the first of three sessions of a Learning Lab, teaching artists and nonprofit representatives about public art ... about African-American history....

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Nigeria: This House Has Fallen (II)

All Africa 22 Jan 2020

Internationally renowned singers such as Sade and Seal hail from Nigeria, as do African music superstars as the late Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade. And artistic excellence is not new to Nigeria .......

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Vicky Sheelongo Conquers the Film Industry

All Africa 22 Jan 2020

... who is busy making a mark in the South African film industry....

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Play-N-Skillz Reveal How Nicky Jam & Daddy Yankee Reunited for the First Time in 20 ...

Billboard 22 Jan 2020

Nicky Jam and Daddy Yankee are considered pioneers of the reggaeton movement, paving the way for the fresh wave of artists such as Lunay, Anuel AA and others ... I want to bring the world together with our music, being Latino and being able to work with African-American artists, European artists, Korean artists and more....

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School briefs

The Galveston Daily News 22 Jan 2020

The Brazoria-Galveston County Farm Bureau is accepting applicants for more than $200,000 worth of scholarships for Galveston County high school students through March 30 ... HOUSTON. The exhibition “African American Artists” will be showcased through March 21 in the art gallery of the University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2700 Bay Area Blvd ... Thursday ... O ... Jan....

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Ritz at the Bourse is set to close, but movie theaters are far from over ...

Philadelphia Daily News 22 Jan 2020

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, the film about how Mr. Rogers turned a cynical journalist around, was playing the Ritz at the Bourse last Sunday when the news came down ... 4 ... 4 ... Posel was an educator/entrepreneur who purveyed American indie cinema, African-American cinema, Asian cinema and LGTBQ cinema long before they were artistic movements ... ....

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Drawn Lines: About the place of work in the struggle

Mail Guardian South Africa 21 Jan 2020

Seidman’s question is disingenuous if one considers the problematic nature of white-women tutorship of black artists that attends to South African art historiography – which is itself a discipline whose dominance by white women “is especially glaring,” as artist-scholar Sharlene Khan observed in her essay, , in 2011....

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Cleveland Museum of Art honors Martin Luther King Jr. through music, dance and the spoken word

Cleveland 21 Jan 2020

First-time visitors like Erin Hyland, 15, and her mom, Maggie, of Cleveland’s West Park community, wanted to experience the museum on a day that would not only offer artistic satisfaction, but a cultural awakening ... East Cleveland native and artist Van Taylor Jones’ custom-designed tennis shoes were show-stoppers....

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Letter: Asheville, racist and unequal as it ever was

Mountain Xpress 21 Jan 2020

In the area of diversity in hiring, Asheville is just as segregated, racist and unequal as it ever was, and while whites promote Asheville as a tourist and artistic mecca, African Americans are ......

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Murfreesboro Community Calendar

Murfreesboro Post 21 Jan 2020

The 2020 African American Celebration will be held Thursday, Jan ... The theme is Reflections of the African American Experience. The Bradley Academy Choir, the Northfield Elementary African Drumming Ensemble, local jazz artists and MTSU’s Panhellenic Step Show are scheduled to perform....