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In Advance of Presidential Inauguration, Artists & Activists are Raising Their Voices in Protest

In Advance of Presidential Inauguration, Artists & Activists are Raising Their Voices in Protest

Embed from Getty Images   This post has been updated.   THIS WEEK SHOULD BE INTERESTING. It opens today with a federal holiday dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr., a minister and nonviolent civil rights activist. His brave, radical and visionary campaigns changed U.S. laws—dismantling segregation and banning voter discrimination—and helped to advance human rights...
New Autograph ABP Exhibition is Latest Exploration of Early Images of Blacks

New Autograph ABP Exhibition is Latest Exploration of Early Images of Blacks

  THROUGHOUT THE AFRICAN DIASPORA the image and representation of black people have been fraught with a history of power, subjugation, racism and stereotype. For generations, the black community was largely absent from the visual record of societies from Europe to the Americas. When blacks lacked the means and agency to control their own images,...