October 2021

October 31, 2021

THE HARLEM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL announces 2022 Dates and Call for Entries

The Harlem International Film Festival (Hi) announced the 2022 edition of the film festival will take place on May 5-8. The first NYC-based film festival to successfully return to in-person/in-theater screenings this year, the next event will once again be a hybrid presentation, with the enthusiastic appearances by world-class filmmakers and local personalities in Harlem and greater New York City that Hi has become famous for.

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October 31, 2021

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CITY COLLEGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS CELEBRATES THE TEMPTATIONS’ OTIS WILLIAMS

City College Center for the Arts, on the campus of City College of New York, is honoring the 60-year history of the legendary Rock &

October 30, 2021

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This Week in African Art and Culture (October 24-30, 2021)

This week in African art and culture, we encounter a first-of-its-kind joint open studio featuring six studio spaces and over 100 African artists.

October 29, 2021

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This Week in Black Art and Culture: North Carolina School in Uproar over Kara Walker Art Work, and more

This week in Black art and culture, Kara Walker artwork upsets middle school parents, American illustrator Jerry Pinkney passes on. The Yale Center for British Art re-exhibits Elihu Yale’s controversial picture of an enslaved child.

October 27, 2021

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The Cleveland Museum of Art Presents Picturing Motherhood Now

Picturing Motherhood Now brings together work by 33 diverse contemporary artists who interpret motherhood as a term with many meanings. The exhibition focuses on art created in the past two decades, including work by Wendy Red Star and LaToya Ruby Frazier, while integrating work by significant pioneers, including Louise Bourgeois, Alice Neel, Betye Saarand others, to narrate an intergenerational and evolving story of motherhood.

October 25, 2021

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This Week in African Art and Culture (October 17 – 23, 2021)

This week in African art and culture, we take you through an exciting and dreamy exhibition in Lagos and report on a host of good news.

October 22, 2021

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This Week in Black Art and Culture: Destination Crenshaw Project Gets Greelinght, Zendaya wins CDFA Award, Blackface Othello Screening Forces Professor To Step Down

This week in Black art and culture, Zendaya is the youngest celebrity to receive the Council for Fashion Designers of America’s (CFDA’s) Fashion Icon Award.

October 21, 2021

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Theatre Communications Group Announces Major Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for TCG Books

Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, is pleased to announce that The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support the expansion of TCG Books through a two-year, $1,000,000 total grant.

October 20, 2021

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ONCE UNEMPLOYED IN A COMA, 27-YEAR OLD BLACK SONGWRITER MAKES HISTORY IN $42M FILM

It’s not every day that you meet an entrepreneur with a story like Kevin Marcus Miller. In 2019, Kevin joined a rec basketball league in Seattle to get more exercise, meet new people and balance out a life that had become too dominated by work.

October 18, 2021

Performance

THE PUBLIC THEATER ANNOUNCES COMPLETE CASTING FOR WORLD PREMIERE PLAY CULLUD WATTAH

The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) announced complete casting today for the world premiere of CULLUD WATTAH, written by 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner Erika Dickerson-Despenza and directed by Candis C.

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