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On April 17 & 18, 2025, the LA Philharmonic is set to present Carlos Simon’s “Good News Mass.” The work is a transcendent ...
WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...
April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the beauty and power of poetry. This monthlong celebration, established ...
Poetry is a space to experiment with language — communications through this medium enables deeper emotional expression. This ...
A student is showcasing the various African American musicians who visited a city in the 1960s. Lily Usher-Unsworth, from Whitley Bay, has designed a small exhibition for City Library in Newcastle ...
In the blink of an eye the land bloomed with a spectrum of brilliant color where before it was all greens and earth tones. It was the sudden awakening of a new aesthetic; our “shrew ...
FLINT, MI - Rev. Robert Sherman McCathern, a longtime Flint pastor and community advocate, was inducted this month into the 39th Martin Luther King Jr. College of Ministers and Laity at Morehouse ...
Earlier this month, the Kent Cultural Alliance rang in spring with their 16th annual Kent County Poetry Festival by ...
Most estimates of postwar killings of African-Americans amount to about 4,000 public lynchings committed between 1877 and 1968. But what about those who were assassinated or disappeared before ...
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (artist rendering), which commemorates 4,400 lynching victims, opens this month in Montgomery, Alabama. It was created by the Equal Justice Initiative.