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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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He is in constant contact with the community through organizations such as the African American Chamber of Commerce and various arts leadership programs.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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When an African American student reports that he has found racially threatening notes on his door, events are set spinning around Sarah Daniels, the new dean of students at a liberal arts college, who tries in vain to defuse the rapidly escalating whirlwind of emotions stirred up among the administrators and students.
Race / Ethnicity African-American and other racially diverse populations are a challenging market for most museums and arts presenters which typically report low racial diversity among attendees.
ART: African American is an attempt to remedy this omission by uncovering the contributions of visual artists of African descent in the Americas.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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The African American Mosaic - This Library of Congress research resource accompanies its African American collections, but it stands alone as a meticulously documented exploration into the African-American experience from colonization, slavery and abolition to the explosion of black arts in the 20th century.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Soon the Museum was put on the map with an exhibition of quilts by East Bay residents entitled Improvisations in African American Quiltmaking , a dazzling display focusing on the connection between the visual arts and the creative improvisation that characterized early jazz and found its source in Africa.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The African art collection includes early and significant works from coastal east and west Africa, an important body of Zulu arts, and a collection of classical Egyptian art that was the first to be publicly exhibited at an American museum.
African- American History is linked to the arts and includes examples of traditional African art, Africans in European Art, Pre-Civil War art, images since Reconstruction, and art from the twentieth century.
As African Americans, we are proud to bring the overwhelming diversity and beauty of African and tribal art into more homes and work environments for its artistic nourishment and spiritual enrichment.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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The flowering of African American creative talent in literature, music, and the arts in the 1920s was centered in New York and became known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Madhubuti is honored for his work as a poet, educator, editor, and publisher who brings the literary arts of African-Americans to the City of Chicago and the nation.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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It is in this setting that we find African-Americans enrolled and graduating from some of the nations prestigious universities and African-Americans making major contributions in science, engineering, and the arts.
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