Museum looks at blacks in Vietnam AP via Yahoo! News
A pair of combat boots. A wristband woven from boot laces with several bullets dangling. A photo of black servicemen standing outside a makeshift African temple.
San Francisco International Arts Festival Announces 2007 Program The Truth in Knowing/Now: A Conversation Across the PR Web via Yahoo! News
San Francisco, CA (PRWeb) December 11, 2006 -- Surrounded by the art and artistry that has already made San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) an international destination, the 4th Annual San Francisco International Arts Festival (www.
Favorite fiction & poetry of 2006 Calendarlive.com
A National Book Award winner for his novel "The Known World," Jones continues his examination of race and identity in this short fiction collection, which takes place in Washington, D.C. Although the stories here address the sweep of African-American history — evoking both the distant past and the uncomfortable present — Jones never loses sight of his characters' humanity.
Rosie Lee Tompkins, African-American Quiltmaker, Dies at 70 New York Times
Rosie Lee Tompkins was a renowned African-American quiltmaker whose use of dazzling color and vivid geometric forms.
Art from the heart Miami Herald
Art collectors Ruth and Richard Shack so loved Ingrid Hartlieb's 700-pound sculpture, Wood Psyche, that they bought an extra apartment to accommodate the haunting piece, described by an art critic as magical and sacred.
Gary Webb's Death: American Tragedy Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel
When Americans ask me what happened to the vaunted U.S. press corps over the past three decades--in the decline from its heyday of the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers to its failure to challenge the Iraq WMD lies or to hold George W. Bush accountable--I often recall for them the story of Gary Webb.
R.L. Tompkins, quiltmaker, 70 Sun-Sentinel
Rosie Lee Tompkins, a renowned African-American quiltmaker whose use of dazzling color and vivid geometric forms made her work internationally acclaimed despite her vehement efforts to remain completely unknown, was found dead on Friday at her home in Richmond, Calif. She was 70.
The Young Friends Society YES of African American Museum kicks off the Harlem Renaissance with casino games and more. Philadelphia Tribune
Casino games and dancing are part of the glitzy nostalgia of 'Harlem Revisited' at AAMP.
Rosie Lee Tomkins Effie Mae Howard, 1936-2006 Berkeley Daily Planet
African-American quiltmaker Effie Mae Howard who, under the name of Rosie Lee Tompkins, produced astonishing works of patchwork art, died at the age of 70, Thursday or Friday, of unknown causes. New York Times art critic Roberta Smith wrote that Tompkins’s textile art works “demolish the category.”
Park to honor African-American horse racing legacy Lexington Herald-Leader
Isaac Murphy, the three-time Kentucky Derby winner who has been called the greatest jockey of the 19th century, once called northeast Lexington home. So have a number of other African-Americans who were noted jockeys, horse trainers and grooms.
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