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...Shana L. Redmond Black vocal music is a dynamic alchemy of performance, technology, and strategy deployed in political scenes throughout the diaspora. In this essay, Paul Robeson is situated within the immanent spread of decolonization in the mid-twentieth century (in Africa, in particular...

... asks what impact the painter’s significant participation in the Black left (from the 1930s through his late career in the 1970s) had on his art production. Alongside activists like W. E. B. Du Bois, Harold Cruse, and Paul Robeson, Lewis participated in a decades-long debate about the role of Black...

.... Spring/Summer 2008 Nka*55 Equally intriguing are the multiplicity of other objects provide an artistic interpretation of the meanings the term conveys: to bring clearly before patterns found in the Paul Robeson House and the the mind, to serve as a sign or symbol of, to por• lives...

... entrance, for in- in white against a black background. dustrial, postliberation apocalypse stance, couldn’t offer a more striking Voyiya’s images call to mind the mid-­ lived by many who have missed out on contrast to Langa’s practice. These 1920s photographs of Paul Robeson by the grand party enjoyed...

... of the Studio Museum. With the excep• some dense bushes—but the babies tion of a massive bust from 1968 in faces had been rubbed out and the copper of Paul Robeson by Ronald grinning visages of Shirley Temple...

...• Expressionism, the pictures on view simply confirmed ful voices of Paul Robeson and Marion Anderson were what some of us knew all along. That is, by the late 1940s, moving concert audiences wherever they performed. Jazz, this African American painter had already achieved...

... Baltake, Joe. "Lumumba: A Hero's Dirge," Sacramento Bee. 7 Festival, the Paul Robeson Award at Fespaco and Audience Award Prize, Jury Prize, Best Actor and Grand Prize at the ll^ Annual African Film...

... model — usually a reclining woman — before him. Amos's allu• pole. They carry their cultural baggage, the symbols and para• sions to this and similar canonical works of the late nineteenth phernalia of which include records of Paul Robeson and and twentieth centuries...

... Gammon recalls friction could you not do it?”19 The taint of the Red Scare between Lewis and him and between Majors and had demonized many in Harlem’s art community, him, which led to Gammon’s ousting.24 Majors is most notably Paul Robeson and the actor Canada said to have baited Woodruff...

..., Earl Hines (1941) as well as Paul Robeson (1956) and Harry Belafonte (1960). 13 Savage taught summer camps after she lost her position at the Harlem Community Art Center and continued to inspire students. Regenia A. Perry, Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection...

... that Doug- and Portrait of Paul Robeson, by John Scott. Courtesy las painted his Aspects of Negro Life murals at the Brockman Gallery Archive New York Public Library’s 135th Street branch in Harlem. Both composer and artist explored paral...

... Specific Projects Temple Gallery Exhibition | 9.7.2007-11.3.2007 Panel Discussion and Jazz Performance I 10.13.2007 Church of the Advocate | Paul Robeson House With Rachid Korai'chi, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Salah Hassan, art...

..., the Commission on Interracial bilities and he called the search for a site a "painful Cooperation, and Paul Robeson and the American and bruising" experience, "Most of the institutions Crusade to End Lynching, which took place in 1946. weren't even willing to look at the images," said...

... by the thoughts of W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson, the journal ex- pressed an activist tone. African-American history and culture were discussed by a wide variety of scholars, intellectuals, and writers. 28 Mary Schmidt Campbell, Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade, 1963 1973 (exhibition...

... Festival in 1993, opened to glowing reviews at ema. Staff included the late Kathleen Collins, and Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper to Paul from what he is doing. Don’t let him put anything New York City’s Film Forum, and became the first Madeline Anderson, Stan Lathan, Charles...

... to what photo-historian Leigh Raiford calls critical black memory or Paul Gilroy s memory of slavery is to begin to unravel these truth claims for the purpose of rethinking Western hegemony and categorization, whose entire raison d etre has been founded on the marginalization of Black life.14...