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10 Oregon Black pioneers brought to life in exhibit at Bush Barn
And until now, their faces were recognizable only in grainy black-and-white photographs. Davis based all but one of the portraits on those historic images. For that one, he used an image of the ...
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Week in art: View Black artworks at Bus Stop and a half-dozen other galleries
Bus Stop Gallery: “Black Futures in Art: The Space Between Us,” evocative exhibition featuring the striking monochromatic portrait drawings of Danis Turcaz and the compelling stone sculptures of ...
One family’s stories prove to be a window on Black struggle and persistence in American history
At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...
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Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
I served as the lead historian and researcher for an exhibition where three of these portraits are now on display, “In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom ... than to be a white man’s ...
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Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” – while they were being shipped to a ...