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California’s Shrey Parikh Is National Spelling Bee Champion
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Victoria Pierre-Jean: Connecting Art with Community
Working at the intersection of memory, music, heritage and healing This week we welcome Victoria Pierre-Jean, a Haitian-American visual artist and community arts facilitator based in Brooklyn. Working in acrylic and mixed media, she explores themes of identity, cultural memory and healing, often through surreal portraiture and bold symbolism. She is the founder of Visually…
How Afro Index, The Online Library For Black Hairstyles Is Helping Us Feel Seen
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Kelly Nicole: The Unhidden Hand
This week we welcome Kelly Nicole, a painter whose work is defined by raw emotional power and immersive, tactile technique. Using only her hands, she blends oil, acrylic and metal leaf directly onto canvas, rejecting traditional tools in favor of a more immediate, physical connection to her materials. This finger-painting approach allows her to channel…
Feeling like you can’t do it all? How to rethink being the ‘ideal’ mother
In many of our communities, we’re taught that a “good mother” puts everyone else first, even at the cost of herself. Let’s rethink that. The post Feeling like you can’t do it all? How to rethink being the ‘ideal’ mother appeared first on El Tecolote.
The True Revolutionary Meaning of Cinco de Mayo
Our colonizers and oppressors know what they do and have designed their corporations and market consumerism to reap super profits from Cinco de Mayo festivities in furtherance of the erasure of our true historical memory—through lies, myths, stereotypes, and revisionist history. Read more via Scalawag: The True Revolutionary Meaning of Cinco de Mayo.
New D.C. mural to honor suffragette Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
Chinatown Garden restaurant will soon have mural paying tribute to civil rights pioneer Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee painted on its wall in Washington, DC. From early in her life, Dr. […] The post New DC Mural to Honor Suffragette Mabel Ping-Hua Lee appeared first on AsAmNews.
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[INTERVIEW] Yvette Michele: Not a return— a reminder of where it started and what still remains
Parle Mag – The Voice of The Culture, bringing you the latest in lifestyle, entertainment, and culture.
91 years, 19 Grammys: The world’s greatest Black orchestra comes home to Kansas City
The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra The Count Basie Orchestra, nineteen-time Grammy winners, the band that helped invent swing, takes the stage at the Music Hall on April 30 at 6:30 PM, on the eve of International Jazz Day. KC’s own Lonnie McFadden, vocalist Deborah Brown, and guitarist Charlton Johnson join them. The show is being…
Think you’re smart? Try this crossword
The post Black Crossword Puzzle: April 22, 2026 appeared first on Baltimore Beat.
A Carbon Diet: Five erasure poems
Nat Geo subsists in the same membrane as many other legacy publications by appealing to affluent and upper-middle-class neoliberals while never challenging their carbon-intensive lifestyles that are antithetical to what a bona fide conservationist magazine would endorse. Read more via Scalawag: A Carbon Diet: Five Erasure Poems.
Cullen Washington Jr.: The gravity of painting the sublime
Creative freedom as a form of resistance This week we welcome Cullen Washington Jr., an African American abstract painter. A native of Louisiana, he lives and works in Queens. Washington was the inaugural recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, and was awarded both a grant and a…
How Aristotle Jones became the ‘Appalachian Soul Man’
Aristotle Jones learned Appalachian Soul music porch-pickin’ with his grandfather Robert Jones. The elder Jones didn’t play Bill Monroe or Carter Family Appalachian music. He played Black Appalachian music informed by the South, by gospel, by Delta blues. Read more via Scalawag: How Aristotle Jones Became the ‘Appalachian Soul Man’.
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