Contra Costa Co.: Applicants Sought For Advisory Body Focused On Vulnerable African-American Residents

Contra Costa County is inviting residents to apply for four vacancies with an advisory body that helps guide the development ...
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Painted bodies : African body painting, tattoos & scarification / Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher ; text with Mary Anne Fitzgerald

Painting with chalk -- Chalk & ocher -- Colors of the earth -- Ocher bodies -- Red ocher -- Ocher & oil -- Powdered with ash -- Patterns of beauty -- Spirit paint -- Painting for seduction "The ...

Experience memories of plantation-born painter in new African American Museum exhibition

The African American Museum Dallas is opening “Sunday Call to Church”, an exhibition featuring 22 works by self-taught ...
Colossal

In Clay, Syd Carpenter Explores Nature, African American History, and the Land

Carpenter is known for her ceramics that explores ideas around the body, land, agriculture, and African American history.
The New York Times

It’s Time to Let Go of ‘African American’

I’m no fan of performative identity politics, and I think racial preferences are long past their expiration date. Yet I don’t think the New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani did anything ...
The New York Times

‘African American’ Is Awkward. It’s Time to Use ‘Black.’

The linguist John McWhorter on how language around racial identity is evolving. By David Leonhardt and John McWhorter Produced by Jillian Weinberger In this episode of “The Opinions,” the linguist and ...