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===This provocative exhibition focuses on racial,sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture and explores artistic influence across generations—bringing seminal figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hammons together with Kehinde Wiley, Shinique Smith, and other emerging artists.===
 * ===30 Americans - Preview by [|Corcoran Gallery of Art]7 months ago===


 * ===Margaret and Charles Burroughs started a black history Museum in their Chicago living room with items collected from their travels to Africa. This museum became the DuSable Museum of African American History, the oldest museum of its type in the country. From GREAT MUSEUMS: Riches, Radicals and Rivals: 100 Years of Museums in America (2006)===

[| http://greatmuseums.org/explore/more/black_history_museums_the_dusable].
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 * ==== “Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.” ― [|Toni Morrison], //[|The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993]//====
 * ==== “At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.” ====

Click on the links to read more about an amazing woman and an exceptional writer and thinker of the African-American community in the US.
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 * ===A comprehensive list of eminent black poets including associated links to their work and short biographies.===

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 * ===A comprehensive list of popular black authors books illustrating a wide variety of genres and literary approaches.===


 * ==="Before Barack Obama became a politician he was, among other things, a writer . Dreams from My Father is his masterpiece: a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking the big questions about identity and belonging." See more on []===

> ===By PAUL WATKINS=== > ===Click on the link to read more..[]===
 * ==="All men live in the shadow of their fathers -- the more distant the father, the deeper the shadow. Barack Obama describes his confrontation with this shadow in his provocative autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," and he also persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither."===
 * === Maya Angelou is considered to be among the most accredited authors, poets, playwrights and civil-right activists in contemporary America .Click on the links to know more about her prolific personality and contribution to modern literature. Here is a well-known poem of hers, heart-stirring and overwhelming like all her artistic creations.===

"I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS"
> **on the back of the wind** > **and floats downstream** > **till the current ends** > **and dips his wings** > **in the orange sun rays** > **and dares to claim the sky.** > > **But a bird that stalks** > **down his narrow cage** > **can seldom see through** > **his bars of rage** > **his wings are clipped and** > **his feet are tied** > **so he opens his throat to sing.** > > **The caged bird sings** > **with fearful trill** > **of the things unknown** > **but longed for still** > **and its tune is heard** > **on the distant hill for the caged bird** > **sings of freedom** > > **The free bird thinks of another breeze** > **and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees** > **and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn** > **and he names the sky his own.** > > **But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams** > **his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream** > **his wings are clipped and his feet are tied** > **so he opens his throat to sing** > > **The caged bird sings** > **with a fearful trill** > **of things unknown** > **but longed for still** > **and his tune is heard** > **on the distant hill** > **for the caged bird** > **sings of freedom.**
 * **The free bird leaps**
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> ==="What happens when Palestinian youth are given an alternative to a life of violence and martyrdom? Deep inside the most radicalized refugee camp in the Palestinian Occupied Territories, The Freedom Theatre is an outlet for feelings of anger and frustration, where expressions of violence can transform into expressions of art."=== > ===Read more here: [|The Freedom Theatre]=== > > === === > === ===
 * ===No Child is Born a Terrorist Synopsis===