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Anya Dani Appointed to New Getty-Funded Role at UCLA Where She Will Teach, Research, and Focus on Bringing More African Americans Into Conservation Field
Anya Dani is joining the UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage in a newly created position: director of community engagement and inclusive practice. She will also serve as a lecturer in cultural heritage conservation. Source: Anya Dani Appointed to New Getty-Funded Role at UCLA Where She… Read more »
Eso Won Books Writes Its Closing Chapter
Eso Won Books, part of the Los Angeles book scene for more than 33 years and one of the country’s most prominent Black bookstores, will close by the end of 2022, co-owner James Fugate confirmed. Independent, Black-owned bookstore Eso Won Books, part of the Los Angeles book scene for more… Read more »
Samella Lewis, tireless champion of African American art, dies at 99
“Art is not a luxury as many people think,” she said. “It is a necessity.” When Samella Lewis began teaching art history in the 1950s and ′60s, Black artists were often shut out of major American museums, passed over in favor of European masters and White abstract expressionists. Artists… Read more »
Actor Hill Harper launches The Black Wall Street platform aimed at empowering investors of color
The Black Wall Street app goes live on June 1 and will offer a digital wallet for peer-to-peer payment and the ability to trade cryptocurrencies. Nearly a century after Black Wall Street — a center of Black business in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, that was destroyed in a… Read more »
Byron Allen announces launch of TheGrio.TV, to premiere MLK weekend
TheGrio.TV, which debuts on Friday, Jan. 15, “is especially important to me,” says Allen, “as it will both serve and uplift all viewers.” With the slogan, “Our Culture Forever,” TheGrio.TV will bring movies, sitcoms, dramas, concerts, talk shows, variety shows, game shows, news and lifestyle content into homes via… Read more »