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Category Archives: Culture
LA Black Book Expo * August 21, 2010
Reminder: Los Angeles will host its popular Black Book Expo again this year on Saturday 8/21 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel. This one day event will offer “authors, storytellers, spoken word and poetry performances, musicians, exhibitors, children’s book authors, emerging … Continue reading
Posted in Blogroll, Books, Culture, Entertainment, Exhibits
Tagged books, LABBX, Los Angeles Black Book Expo
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House Art In West Africa
“I Paint My House” by Margaret Courtney-Clarke is a collection of photographs of African women decorating their homes. In addition to pottery and textiles, there is a South and West African tradition of painting the outside of the house with … Continue reading
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Tagged Berber artists, Ghanaian artists, Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Paint My House
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Lura * Music of Cape Verde
Lura sings the music of Cape Verde, an island off the west coast of Africa which declared independence from Portugal in 1975. Singing both in Portuguese, and in the language of her small country, she mixes some of the musical … Continue reading
Posted in Blogroll, CDs, Culture, Entertainment, Music
Tagged Cape Verde, CDs, Lura, Music, Portuguese
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Book Corner: Zora Neale Hurston
Writer, story teller and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, 1891 – 1960, started to publish right after the height of the Harlem Renaissance. The ability to support oneself with art that explored the African-American experience waned with the onset of the … Continue reading
Youssou N’ Dour
“I Bring What I Love” – is a documentary film about Youssou N’Dour, the pop music superstar from Senegal, West Africa. N’ Dour is revered all across Africa for his “remarkable range and poise and for his prodigious musical intelligence … Continue reading
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Tagged Elizabeth Chai Vasahelyi, I Bring What I Love, Senegalese music, Youssou N’Dour
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