by October Gallery
Armstrong traveled to Accra with CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow. The legendary broadcaster was in the process of filming a documentary on Armstrong, “Satchmo the Great.” They’d been on tour…
The acclaimed documentary film-maker Steve James has a gift for zeroing in on the microcosms and enclaves of American culture that speak more broadly to the country’s racial and socio-economic…
Despite his demise, aged 36, on Aug. 18, 1987, the mythology that surrounds Marechera is as obscuring as it is fascinating. His mythical boldness bore little resemblance to his tentative,…
The David C. Driskell Center presented African American Art: Increasing Resources for Education in the 21st Century at the annual conference for the Association of African American Museums (AAAM), held…
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Edward Siddons, The Guardian ‘She taught me we had value’ … Grandma Ruby and Me. Photograph: LaToya Ruby Frazier, Featured Image My grandmother, who raised me, was…
When baby Rodrigo was born, he didn’t make a sound. Lucy Gomez had been in a Fresno County hospital for a week since she first showed signs of labor. She’d…
And away from the bulldozers, that museum’s curatorial team has also been busy building an impressive collection of artifacts. On Tuesday, the museum gave The Tennessean the first look at…
Last week, the leftist magazine Jacobin published an articlearguing that “the spectacular rehabilitation of socialism as a legitimate position within American politics, particularly among young people, is one of the…
Thomas Allen Harris’s film visits the past through the lens of the present by visiting the works of current and historical African American photographers as well as archival images dating…
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Temi Oni , The Root I walk a lot. I have a car, but sometimes, it’s nice to be able to look around you and see what’s…