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Amaza Lee Meredith, African American Architect: Love & Home
Born in 1895 in Lynchburg, VA, Amaza Lee Meredith was an African American architect, artist and educator who taught at Virginia State College where s…
2 years, 10 months ago
Prince and the Technician
In 1983 Prince hired LA sound technician Susan Rogers, one of the few women in the industry, to move to Minneapolis and help upgrade his home recordi…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Passion of Chris Strachwitz 1931-2023 —Arhoolie Records
Chris was a man possessed. “El Fanatico,” Ry Cooder called him. A song catcher, dedicated to recording the traditional, regional, down home music of …
2 years, 11 months ago
Ada Louise Huxtable, Architecture Critic: The Art We Must Live With
Ada Louise Huxtable, who “invented” the profession of architecture critic, wrote countless articles for two great daily newspapers and had a gigantic…
2 years, 11 months ago
Tony Schwartz Centennial - 30,000 Recordings Later
Cab drivers, children’s jump rope rhymes, folk songs, dialects, controversial TV ads, interviews with blacklisted artists and writers during the McCa…
3 years ago
House/Full of Black Women
For some eight years now thirty-four Black women have gathered monthly around a big dining room table in the orange house on Orange Street in Oakland…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ray Eames—Industrial Designer & Artist: Beauty in the Everyday
Many know Ray Eames as the small, dirndled woman behind her more famous husband, Charles Eames. But Ray was the industrial designer bending plywood i…
3 years, 1 month ago
Black Reconstruction in America - W.E.B. Du Bois' 1935 Groundbreaking / Myth-Busting Book
In 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois, scholar, public intellectual, and social and political activist, published his magnum opus: Black Reconstruction in Americ…
3 years, 1 month ago
Never a Man Spake Like This Man: The Black Preacher As Performing Artist
In the early 1980s, Black students and the African American community at American University had been demonstrating for more access and inclusion in …
3 years, 2 months ago
The Golden Arches in Black America
Criticisms of fast food often focus on the industrialized system that produces the burgers, buns and fries, or the food’s negative health impacts. So…
3 years, 2 months ago