...Joy L. Bivins Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair was a costume exhibition that debuted at the Chicago History Museum in March 2013. The project explored and examined the history and impact of Ebony Fashion Fair, a traveling fashion show produced by Chicago’s Johnson Publishing Company...

... to God. God would to make space for this too. Then this guy finds say, “Follow the market and the market would say, out that I have the Johnson Publishing Company Glass lantern slide projector in use at Archive House. Photo: Sara Pooley 78 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 34...

..., Hughes’s The Weary Blues, Countee Cullen’s Color, who could be counted on to chronicle her menus, Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death, and James Weldon her celebrity guests, and even her three marriages Johnson’s God’s Trombones.16 and divorces. “A’Lelia’s commission of an avant-garde...

..., interview by author, July 6, 2021. 40 Ozier Muhammad s photograph of Guinean musicians performing on the track of the Lagos national stadium at FESTAC s opening ceremony captures the festival s energy and jubilation. Johnson Publishing Company would continue to reprint the photograph, both in full...

... whites to look at blacks, blacks could be punished— coroners ruled the latter two cases suicides, which and indeed were killed—merely for looking at a the families have vigorously disputed. Johnson's white person, especially a white woman. Spectacle family asserted that he...

... in full (August — four successive weekends). color. James Sepyo and Ademola participate in the Stu- With star fashion model Pat Evans and Ollie dio Museum exhibition African-­American Exten- Johnson, Weusi member Bill Howell opens Pamoja sions, incorporating...

..., whereas Jack Johnson's success at classes who attained status through association using his body's force was the weapon for race- with sophisticated affectations such as speech and baiting among whites and racial pride among dress. The Duchess of Alba was well-known for blacks...

... model I completing my first portfolio, I sent the book to Harper’s ever saw was Naomi Sims. She could really move with those Bazaar, and they decided to use me in the back of their clothes. I don’t want to put her against Beverly Johnson “Shop by Mail” section. I was paid $125 a month to do...

... the body of the group. I became the first president and later served as executive director, working in that capacity with a board of directors that included Sophie Johnson, head of Magnolia Tree Enterprises, and Andrea McLaugh- lin of Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College. Carol Blank became vice...

.... Michaels, Maryland, using the papers of a black Thus one could assert that the team of Agassiz and sailor named Johnson. Bailey, who would later be Zealy commenced the trafficking in photographic known as Frederick Douglass, boarded a train for representations of black bodies that became married...

... would tell an interviewer in the summer Image of a garden party for American performers from Moneta Sleet, World Festival of Negro Arts, Ebony, July 1966. Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Made...

...-mail message to me, November 10, 2017. 10 Kate Cowcher, From Pushkin to Perestroika: Art and the Search for an Ethiopian October, in Red Africa: Affective Communities and the Cold War, ed. Mark Nash (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2016), 58. 11 Muluneh, Visual Communication for Change. 12 Johnson, e...

... Bourne.) Courtesy of William Greaves Productions. Kirsten Johnson, Melvin and Mario Van Peebles, Black Feminism. Chiz Schultz, Sam Pollard, Woody King Jr., and the are two questions to ask...

..., acrylic, 66 x 18 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. Photo: Tim Johnson Ethnographic displays create a distance between cultures that doesn t need to be there. Fred Wilson, quoted in Donald Garfield, Making the Museum Mine: An Interview with Fred Wilson, 1993...

..., a year of many important artistic developments made by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell Univer- black artists and institutions. This is the period of the Black sity, the African American Museum of Philadelphia, and the Arts movement, inaugurated by the publication of Black Fire...

.... Culture and the Modern Experience at Rutgers, Newark, in Consider also that woefully underinformed New York The Cadillac Chronicles cannot be overstated. The publicity Times review by Ken Johnson of Now Dig This: Art and that partnership generated, as well as my interest...

... himself on ships contributed to the multiplicity of works on a sheet of paper or a piece of glass, and then cov- display. The exhibition was later reprised in March ering the imprint with powdered pigment poured 1973 with artists Gloria Bohanon, Marie Johnson, through a strainer so the greasy...

... torate of Special Operations (Scorpions). cers jumped out of crates in the back entitled Description of a Slave Ship . In Romuald Hazoumé , La Bouche du Roi ,1997–2005. © Romuald Hazoumé. Photo: Benedict Johnson...

... torate of Special Operations (Scorpions). cers jumped out of crates in the back entitled Description of a Slave Ship . In Romuald Hazoumé , La Bouche du Roi ,1997–2005. © Romuald Hazoumé. Photo: Benedict Johnson...

... torate of Special Operations (Scorpions). cers jumped out of crates in the back entitled Description of a Slave Ship . In Romuald Hazoumé , La Bouche du Roi ,1997–2005. © Romuald Hazoumé. Photo: Benedict Johnson...