Profile: Ruth E. Edwards (1940-)
Ruth E. Edwards is a book artist, instructor and founder of Books in Black, a collective of African American book makers. Continue reading Profile: Ruth E. Edwards (1940-)
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Profile: William Edmondson (1874-1951)
William Edmondson was a self-taught sculptor who was the first African American to have a solo exhibition (1937) at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Continue reading Profile: William Edmondson (1874-1951)
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Historic U.N. Petition Continues to Inspire Human Rights Advocacy
On October 23, 1947, the NAACP sent to the UN a document titled “An Appeal to the World,” in which the NAACP asked the UN to redress human rights violations the United States committed against its African-American citizens. W.E.B. Du Bois, who drafted the NAACP petition with the assistance of Earl B. Dickerson (J.D. ’20), William Robert Ming, Jr.(J.D. ’33), and other leading lawyers and scholars, intended to focus attention … Continue reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s Historic U.N. Petition Continues to Inspire Human Rights Advocacy
Profile:Torkwase Dyson
Torkwase Dyson is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Her work has been exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. She describes the themes of her work as “architecture, infrastructure, environmental justice, and abstract drawing.” In 1999 she received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and her MFA from Yale … Continue reading Profile:Torkwase Dyson
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