Andrew Jackson Young Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr. Continue reading Profile: Andrew Young Jr. (1932-)
Stanley Lawrence Crouch is an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist and biographer, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel Don’t the Moon Look Lonesome? Continue reading Profile: Stanley Crouch (1945-)
Walter Price is an American painter based in New York City. Continue reading Profile: Walter Price (1989-)
Rose Theodora Piper was an American painter best known for her semi-abstract, blues-inspired paintings of the 1940s. In the 1950s, out of financial necessity, she became a textile designer. For nearly thirty years, she worked as Rose Ransier, designing knit fabrics. Continue reading Profile: Rose Piper (1917-2005)
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