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Today. Sprint Triathlon. What ... This is the first race. When ... May 19. Where ... This traveling exhibition from The Studio Museum in Harlem includes works from modern and contemporary artists of African descent and will be in Charleston through Aug ... The Charleston Night Market is now open with more than 100 local artists and craftspeople, as well as live music....

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The Venice Biennale 2019 reflects the interesting times we are living in

The Hindu 18 May 2019

That environmental protection may come in quiet forms was best demonstrated by the American pavilion, which 77-year-old African-American artist Martin Puryear lit up with his flowing poetic forms ... Ghana stands out with an extraordinarily powerful film, ‘The Elephant in the Room’, by John Akomfrah, on the great denuding of the African landscape....

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Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend

The Art Newspaper 17 May 2019

For her stunning 18-channel video installation I’m Your Man (Portrait of Leonard Cohen) (2017), the South African artist Candice Breitz invited 18 super fans to cover Cohen’s 1988 comeback album I’m Your Man in a professional recording studio, and had the all-men’s choir from ......

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New Cultural Center Designed to Promote Black History and Artistry

Jacksonville Free Press 17 May 2019

The Durkeeville neighborhood, west of downtown Jacksonville was once home to some of the city’s most prominent African American families ... Gallery founder, BSun has owned the center for three years and in the midst of remodeling decided to paint the center with creative paintings from local artists....

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BET Networks Announces Official Nominations For The 2019 "BET Awards"

The Record 17 May 2019

BET Networks recognizes artists, entertainers, and athletes across 20 categories with the 2019 "BET Awards" nominations ... VIA, VIA.B), is the nation's leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs television programming for the African-American audience....

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Michael Gerson: 'Stony the Road' outlines the violent campaign to reverse Reconstruction

Deseret News 17 May 2019

AP ... Hundreds of thousands of African American citizens registered to vote and eventually elected an estimated 2,000 black officials at every level of government ... Between 1868 and 1871, an estimated 400 African Americans were lynched across the South ... Or through the artistic excellence of the Harlem Renaissance. Or through pan-African pride ... ....

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Stevie Wonder, pet cemetery, songwriter jamboree: News from around our 50 states

Herald Mail 17 May 2019

A group of historic treasures has a new home, with five pieces by African American artists from the state joining the permanent collection of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts ... a group dedicated to documenting, preserving and promoting African American artists of the South....

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SA’s disconnect from Africa limits cultural landscape

Mail Guardian South Africa 16 May 2019

The list of “validated” African artists this publication contains is an objective one; the names are arrived at through tracking and studying the exhibition practices of Africa’s top 20 curators and discovering whose art over a decade (from 2007 to 2017) has been consistently ......

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NMAAM Host’s “Sounds of Social Justice” Fundraiser

The Tennessee Tribune 16 May 2019

NASHVILLE, TN — Sports and music industry professionals were present to support a fundraiser for the National Museum of African American Music April 24, highlighting the impact of black artists and athletes on social justice movements throughout America’s history....

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We asked for the worst Bob Dylan song. You got pretty mad.

Duluth News Tribune 16 May 2019

... best-worst, includes — in addition to songs already listed here — "All the Tired Horses," "Sarah Jane," "Forever Young" and "We Are the World" — a group project among pop artists in the mid-1980s who were trying to raise money for African famine relief and not written by Dylan....

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The Gibbes Museum of Art is only the second museum to host traveling exhibition Black Refractions

Charleston City Paper 15 May 2019

Featuring Works by African American Artists, The Gibbes Museum of Art is hosting a massive traveling exhibition, Black Refractions ... It was chosen by the artists to represent an earlier painting (1943) done by a previously unidentified African-American artist named Claude Clark....

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Turbine Art Fair on the move

Independent online (SA) 15 May 2019

To develop young artists. "Our vision for TAF has always been to develop young artists and grow the market for African art and elevate art collecting across a wider market. South Africans have really embraced this Fair since the beginning and we are delighted to be moving to a bigger venue in 2019....

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6th Afrima: Au Announces Calendar Of Events

Modern Ghana 15 May 2019

AFRIMA, in partnership with the African Union, is a music property that recognises and rewards the work and talent of a myriad of African artistes from the old to the new generation of musicians. It also stimulates conversa ... ....