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At Storm King, Sonia Gomes’s Enchanting Sculptures Take an Air
The same sly spirit of rebellion permeates Gomes’s sculptures, which range from bulbous pendulums that dangle from the ...
The achingly human art of Michelle Obama’s portraitist
Amy Sherald’s portraits are an unsettling fusion of the intimate and the unknown — allegories and archetypes with impossibly ...
To Be Seen and Not Defined: Dandyism and the Black Intellectual Imagination
Figures like Du Bois, Hurston, and Baldwin stitched freedom into fabric—not out of vanity but vision. To revisit their style ...
Woman Shares 'Mysterious' Goodwill Thrift—Becomes Shock Internet Sensation
What one woman found in the bins of a Goodwill store has captivated the internet.
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Building a Network for Black Women in Science with Tomi Akingbade
Tomi Akingbade is the founder of the Black Women in Science Network and a Ph.D. student in Neurochemistry at the University of Cambridge ...
In Philadelphia, Art Shows by Women Teem With Eros and Audacity
Devotees of the human figure, Cecily Brown and Christina Ramberg turn the Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a showplace for the ...
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First Look: Bryn Mawr College unveils new art path honoring Black workers
The big picture: D.C.-based artist Nekisha Durrett 's installation, "Don't Forget to Remember (Me)," includes 10,000 clay ...
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Penn and WURD started a Black Doctors Directory. A lawsuit says that’s discrimination.
Penn Medicine created an online directory of Black doctors to help people in underserved communities access care. Now a conservative health-care nonprofit is claiming it discriminates against white ...
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Black Woman Gets Ticket For Walking On The Wrong Side Of The Road, But Her White Husband Does Not
Akia Townes believes she received the minor traffic violation for walking on the wrong side of the road because she is a Black woman ... Her husband, who is white, began recording the interaction ...