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A Cultural Confluence: African-American Literature in Europe |1992-41

Barbara B. Lewis — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:57:54 +0000

The Fabres’ Initiative: “The initial step was ours. We created the occasion,” Genevieve Fabre told me last month in Paris on the campus of the

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Ashton Springer – Betting on “Lotto” | 1992-43

Barbara B. Lewis — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:17:29 +0000

After a long absence Ashton Springer who made history back in 1970 as the producer of No Place to be Somebody, the first black play to win a Pulitzer Prize, has

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The Dark Past Has Taught Us

Barbara B. Lewis — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 09:24:05 +0000

"Lift every voice and sing, 'Til earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmony of Liberty ... ."

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Fighter Laurence Holder, Back in the Ring – Part II

Barbara B. Lewis — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 08:36:52 +0000

For decades, Laurence Holder has been showing and strengthening his mettle with words on a page, working in the arena of character, meaning, and emotion,

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Remembering Muhammad Ali

Barbara B. Lewis — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 07:27:22 +0000

Ali was also aware that his own genes were the carriers of a much confused and convoluted history. “I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize,” Ali said when he announced his name change in the 1960s, following his trip to the continent of Africa with Malcolm X.

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Fighter Laurence Holder, Back in the Ring, Part I

Barbara B. Lewis — Wed, 18 May 2016 06:11:53 +0000

Your work fascinates me, Laurence, because it is so strong in history. It brings what was into now, but that history is not always appreciated.

“Your reading is dead on, Barbara. The reason why I’m interested in African American history is because our tales are not told. I was just talking on the phone with a friend and we were amazed that Prince and Michael Jackson coexisted at the same time, doing all of the fantastic music and creating music at the same time. Our artistry and our stories are always being separated out.”

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“Not Tucking Tail This Time”

Barbara B. Lewis — Mon, 02 May 2016 20:20:52 +0000

It was Shakespeare’s birthday, in the year 2016, 400 years after the poet of the ages passed. I chose to honor April 23 by looking

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“Braving The Odds” & “Under The Elevated”

Barbara B. Lewis — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 08:14:54 +0000

Braving the Odds depicts and explores Street Style. Under The Elevated – A Poem. Just before New Year’s Eve, 2016, I took this photograph

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“Wylie Avenue Views” – Robbie McCauley, Award-Winning Actress Part II

Barbara B. Lewis — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 03:56:02 +0000

“Learning and Talking More with Robbie McCauley”, Part II “Everything to you is jazz. Me I’m classical,” Robbie McCauley’s daughter, composer Jessie Montgomery, http://www.jessiemontgomery.com/about/, www.jessiemontgomery.com, says

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“Wylie Avenue Views” – Interview with Robbie McCauley, Award-Winning Actress — Part I

Barbara B. Lewis — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:58:15 +0000

"Always Learning", Part I This interview with Robbie McCauley, award-winning actress, inaugurates Wylie Avenue Views, a column about art and activism. Wylie Avenue is real and imaginary. It runs down the center of August Wilson’s ten play urban saga and it is forever alive, pulsing with music and ideas and new possibilities.

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Georgette Seabrooke Powell – “And the Wall Yields Testimony”

Barbara B. Lewis — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 14:21:26 +0000

“And the Wall Yields Testimony” – Georgette Seabrooke Powell (August 2, 1916 – December 27, 2011) Something pulled me to the wall. Maybe it was

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Lost in Chicago and Justified

Barbara B. Lewis — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 12:00:39 +0000

Lost in Chicago Chicago’s Homan Square loses men, mostly the dark ones. At night and during the day, they are pulled from the streets, then

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Killing the Voice of Others

Barbara B. Lewis — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:59:11 +0000

Tamir Rice, 12, was at play when he died, shot because of his looks and what he held: a plastic-filled pellet gun that threatened no

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Boston’s Trotter Institute: Looking to 2020

Barbara B. Lewis — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 09:06:00 +0000

Boston is a port city with over fifty universities inside its borders, many of them world famous. This is a magnetic draw for the ambitious

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