“African people are the forerunners, innovators, creators, the hip. African people are my motivation,” Wadsworth Jarrell, one of the founders of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists), said in…Continue Reading →
“A lot of people tried to talk us out of it,” Pirkle Jones told The New York Times in December 1968 when an exhibition of photos of the Black Panther…Continue Reading →
The April 6, 1970, issue of Time magazine arrived with a portrait of Jessie Jackson on the cover painted by Jacob Lawrence and the headline “Black America 1970.” Inside was…Continue Reading →
In August 1967, a group of 14 African American artists began painting a 60-foot-wide mural on the side of a run-down tavern at the corner of 43rd Street and Langley…Continue Reading →
“Dr. Martin Luther King came to speak at Oakland, California, the Oakland Auditorium, 7,000 seats, 7,000 people showed up,” Bobby Seale, who co-founded the Black Panthers in 1966, recalled during…Continue Reading →