
Sculpting a Legacy: The Art and Impact of John Wilson

creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music

For those of us of African descent, the reconstruction never ended.
Joe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process

Then in my mind's eye I see the bronze statue of the college Founder, the cold Father symbol, his hands outstretched in the breathtaking gesture of lifting a veil that flutters in hard, metallic folds above the face of a kneeling slave; and I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in pl
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