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Why the Nordic Countries Emerged as a Haven for 20th-Century African American Expatriates
An exhibition in Seattle spotlights the Black artists and performers who called Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden home between the 1930s and the 1980s.
by
Tamara J. Walker
via
Smithsonian
on
June 20, 2024
The Harlem Renaissance Was Bigger Than Harlem
How Black artists made modernism their own.
by
Susan Tallman
via
The Atlantic
on
June 14, 2024
The Song of the Summer Is Actually the Song of 1982
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” is one of several recent hits bringing back the genre that never got a name.
by
Dan Charnas
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Slate
on
June 4, 2024
Who is Linda Martell, the Black Country Musician Beyoncé Spotlights?
The first Black woman to play the Grand Ole Opry and hit Billboard’s country music charts.
by
Jonathan Edwards
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Washington Post
on
March 30, 2024
Cowboy Carter and the Black Roots of Country Music
Beyoncé is following in the footsteps of many Black musicians before her.
by
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum
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Teen Vogue
on
March 29, 2024
How a Century of Black Westerns Shaped Movie History
Mario Van Peebles' "Outlaw Posse" is the latest attempt to correct the erasure of people of color from the classic cinema genre.
by
Chris Klimek
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Smithsonian
on
March 1, 2024
The Black Songwriter Who Took Nashville by Storm
Before Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” won song of the year at the CMAs, hit maker Ted Jarrett’s music topped the country charts.
by
Robert M. Marovich
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Zócalo Public Square
on
January 31, 2024
Stand Up and Spout
Cecil Brown wants to digitally revive the enslaved antebellum poet George Moses Horton. Can digital technology help reconnect us to the tradition he embodied?
by
Matt Sandler
via
The Baffler
on
January 8, 2024
Radical Light
The cosmic collision of Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway.
by
Ashawnta Jackson
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Oxford American
on
December 5, 2023
A Right to Paint Us Whole
W.E.B. Du Bois’ message to African American artists.
by
Melvin L. Rogers
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
October 4, 2023
Zeal, Wit, and Fury: The Queer Black Modernism of Claude McKay
Considering the suppressed legacy of Claude McKay’s two “lost” novels, “Amiable with Big Teeth” and “Romance in Marseille.”
by
Gary Edward Holcomb
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
September 11, 2023
In Old Wilmington
How the failed search for a silent film uncovered a lost musician of the Harlem Renaissance.
by
John Jeremiah Sullivan
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Oxford American
on
September 5, 2023
'Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters' Explores the Legacy of the Black Musician Who Made 'Hound Dog' a Hit
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton lived an unapologetic life that transcended genres and gender norms beyond her bluesy hit song and the “Elvis moment.”
by
Daja E. Henry
,
Lynnée Denise
via
The 19th
on
June 27, 2023
The Battle Over Techno’s Origins
A museum dedicated to techno music has opened in Frankfurt, Germany, and many genre pioneers feel that Black and queer artists in Detroit have been overlooked.
by
T. M. Brown
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The New Yorker
on
April 14, 2023
Jay Jackson’s Audacious Comics
Written during World War II, Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos imagined a future liberated from racism and inequality.
by
Jeet Heer
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The Nation
on
February 23, 2023
A New Flame for Black Fire
What will be the legacy of the Black Arts Movement? Ishmael Reed reflects on the transformation and growth of Black arts since the 1960s.
by
Ishmael Reed
via
New York Review of Books
on
January 14, 2023
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Aesthetics of Emancipation
“I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty and for Beauty to set the world right,” W.E.B. Du Bois said in his June 1926 lecture.
by
Clay Matlin
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Black Perspectives
on
April 21, 2022
Black Voices, German Song
What did German listeners hear when African American singers performed Schubert or Brahms?
by
Adam Kirsch
via
New York Review of Books
on
January 20, 2022
Classical Music and the Color Line
Despite its universalist claims, the field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion.
by
Douglas Shadle
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Boston Review
on
December 15, 2021
The Hot Market for Toppled Confederate Statues
Artists, museums and other groups are vying to claim fallen monuments from the Jim Crow era — but for very different reasons.
by
Kriston Capps
via
CityLab
on
December 9, 2021
The World According to Sylvester Russell
The career and legacy of a Black critic who argued for the elevation of Black performance.
by
Dorothy Berry
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
August 30, 2021
Chester Higgins’s Life in Pictures
All along the way, his eye is trained on moments of calm, locating an inherent grace, style, and sublime beauty in the Black everyday.
by
Jordan Coley
via
The New Yorker
on
August 27, 2021
Robert Colescott Asks Us to Reimagine Icons of American History
Colescott satirizes an iconic painting of George Washington, and in doing so, challenges the viewer to reconsider their beliefs about American history.
by
Sotheby's
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YouTube
on
May 11, 2021
How Should We Understand the Shocking Use of Stereotypes in the Work of Black Artists?
It's about the satirical tradition of 'going there.'
by
Richard J. Powell
via
Artnet News
on
February 16, 2021
Jacob Lawrence Went Beyond the Constraints of a Segregated Art World
Jacob Lawrence was one of twentieth-century America’s most celebrated black artists.
by
Rachel Himes
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Jacobin
on
February 4, 2021
Robert S. Duncanson Charted New Paths for Black Artists in 19th-Century America
Deemed “the greatest landscape painter in the West,” he achieved rare fame in his day.
by
Alex Greenberger
via
Art In America
on
January 29, 2021
The Black Collectors Who Championed African-American Art during the U.S. Civil War
Dorsey and Thomas amassed important collections at a time when the future of chattel slavery and Black life hung in the balance of a national quarrel.
by
Jordan McDonald
via
Artsy
on
August 11, 2020
When Crime Photography Started to See Color
Six decades ago, Gordon Parks, Life magazine’s first black photographer, revolutionized what a crime photo could look like.
by
Bill Shapiro
via
The Atlantic
on
June 16, 2020
The Many Lives of Romare Bearden
An abstract expressionist and master of collage, an intellectual and outspoken activist, Bearden evolved as much as his times did.
by
Nell Irvin Painter
via
The Nation
on
August 26, 2019
What the Black Dolls Say
These rare survivors of early African-American art can illuminate much about our difficult history.
by
Elizabeth Pochoda
via
The Nation
on
September 17, 2018
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