Betye Saar And “The Legends of Black Girl’s Window” @ MoMA October 21, 2019–January 4, 2020
In Betye Saar’s work, time is cyclical. History and experiences, emotion and knowledge travel across time and back again, linking the artist and viewers of her work with generations of people who came before them. This is made explicit in her commitment to certain themes, imagery, and objects, and her continual reinvention of them over […]
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Cross Colours: Black Fashion in the 20th Century –September 27, 2019 – March 1, 2020 CAAM
In celebration of the pioneering apparel line and its enduring legacy, the California African American Museum has mounted an exhibit that chronicles the brand’s 30-year history: Cross Colours: Black Fashion in the 20th Century. The show, jointly curated by Tyree Boyd-Pates, history curator and program manager, and Taylor Bythewood-Porter, assistant history curator, features original design […]
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Let The Healing Begin, Sampa The Great
I first came across Sampa The Great through a friend. I was instantly taken both with her performance and her lyrical prowess. She held me captive and made me sit up a little straighter. Her determined delivery and unquestionable confidence gave rise to my own fearlessness. I knew instantly that I would become a fan […]
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Dave McClinton is a Visual Communicator
In the African American community, we are slowly rediscovering our history that has not been fully illustrated. It’s my job as a visual communicator to review historical information and inform the community by bringing these concepts to life and help visually define our identity. And to distribute these stories about the strengths and trials of the […]
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Featured Book: More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth
Throughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings along the way. In this riveting and timely memoir, the groundbreaking journalist unpacks lessons on race, identity, and success through her own journey, from navigating her way as the unstoppable child of a unlikely interracial marriage in small-town California to […]
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GETTING TO KNOW HAITIAN BORN WRITER IBI ZOBOI
Ibi Aanu Zoboi was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and is a graduate of the Clarion West Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Her short story, “Old Flesh Song”, is published in the award-winning Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, a collection of African American speculative fiction. Ibi received an award from theWomen Writers of Haitian Descent for her short […]
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Barbara Jones-Hogu Crafted Art that stressed Black Independence and Artistic Self-Determination
Barbara Jones-Hogu was born in Chicago. She received a BA from Howard University in 1959, a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1964, and a MS with a concentration in printmaking from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1970. Jones-Hogu is associated with […]
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GOOD BLACK NEWS IS WHAT WE ALL NEED
Good Black News was founded on March 18, 2010 via Facebook (see the detailed story in our About The Editorssidebar) and is currently expanding to have a larger web presence. You can find us here at goodblacknews.org, on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram, Linked In, YouTube and Google+. GBN is a labor of love, and our Founder/Editor-In-Chief Lori Lakin Hutcherson and staff are all unpaid volunteers. […]
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Tim Fielder is Visual Afrofuturism, Pulp Entertainment, and Action Films
Tim Fielder is an Illustrator, concept designer, cartoonist, and animator born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He has a lifelong love of Visual Afrofuturism, Pulp entertainment, and action films. He has worked over the years in the storyboarding, film visual development, gaming, comics, and animation industries for clients as varied as Marvel Comics, The Village […]
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New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
Here is the book so many have been waiting for. The book to make sense of so many others. New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent follows the original tome, New Daughters of Africa, published 25 years ago to global acclaim. It was deemed a vital document then, and it takes […]
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HealHaus is a holistic healing studio in the middle of Brooklyn NY that focuses on helping people of color!
Darian Hall, a Fall 2001 initiate of the Gamma Iota Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, teamed up with Elisa Shankle to create HealHaus, a space for people of color to practice self-care while living in New York. Their 1,100-square-foot wellness center includes studios for group workshops and classes, private rooms for individual sessions and a large tranquil outdoor deck where […]
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“Sulwe,” which means “star” in Ms. Nyong’o’s native language! Lupita Nyong’o pens a children’s book!
Luo, is the story of a 5-year-old girl growing up in Kenya. In the book, Sulwe has the darkest skin color in her family, a fact that makes her uncomfortable and determined to find a way to lighten her skin. As the story unfolds Sulwe embarks on a whimsical adventure in the night sky that, […]
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Merata: A film about a courageous woman who Decolonized the screen. By her son Heperi Mita.
I never saw my mum as a filmmaker, nor was she ever an activist in my eyes. She was always a loving mum. And as the youngest of her six kids, that was the only side of her that I really knew. There was a lot about her 68 years of life I didn’t know, […]
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“Black Mother,” the new film by Khalik Allah is an audio-visual love letter to Jamaica
Part film, part baptism, in Black Mother director Khalik Allah brings us on a spiritual journey through Jamaica. Soaking up its bustling metropolises and tranquil countryside, Allah introduces us to a succession of vividly rendered souls who call this island home. Their candid testimonies create a polyphonic symphony, set against a visual prayer of indelible […]
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Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite April 11–September 1, 2019, @ Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Inspired in part by the writings of Marcus Garvey, Kwame Brathwaite, his older brother, Elombe Brath, and the African Jazz Arts Society and Studios (AJASS) popularized the phrase “Black is Beautiful” in the late ’50s and early ’60s. Brathwaite and Brath did their part to spread this idea through Brathwaite’s writings and photographs, as well […]
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The Bright and Beautiful work of French Artist Aurélia Durand
My name is Aurélia Durand; I am a visual artist. I was born and raised in France, in the suburb of Paris. In 2014 I got my master in industrial design from the art school ESAD d’Orléans in France. During my studies, in 2013 I went to Copenhagen at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design […]
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CONTACT HIGH: A VISUAL HISTORY OF HIP-HOP –Documenting the Rise of a Cultural Phenomenon
I had the privilege of attending the opening reception at the Annenberg Space for Photography to enjoy the Contact High Exhibition. It was energetic and jam packed with photography that transported you through and back in time. I found myself immersed in art that made me feel like I was back home. I am of […]
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pierre bennu– illustrator + filmmaker + DJ + puppeteer + storyteller + archivist = polymath
There are so many works of art and writings that I am inspired by and committed to sharing here on NBD and Pierre Bennu is one of them. This work entitled THE SERIES ‘1987’ has evoked in me something new or rather old! These pieces and the writings that go along with them bring up the […]
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Celebrating the ARTIST Shantell Martin at Nevahblackdown for Women’s Month and beyond!
Below the surface of Shantell Martin’s signature black and white drawings is an artists’ inquiry into the role of artist and viewer, where a work of art is more than an object of admiration disconnected from its inception. With a meditative process defined by an uninhibited flow, her compositions embody her internal state and the […]
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