Tag: Black Writers

• Artist a Day: Audre Lorde

  

  Audre Lorde was born today in 1934 and I’m thinking about her most notable quotes while reading her essays this evening. They give me pause, because the timelessness of her writing is of great comfort now. Our great writers and thinkers deserved so much more than we what gave them when they were with us.…

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  February 18, 2020

  Art, Art/Culture, Black Artists, black history, poetry, Uncategorized, writing

  Artist a Day, Audre Lorde, Black History Month, Black Writers, Poets

• Artist a Day: Lorraine Hansberry

  

  In 1957, a 27-year-old Lorraine Hansberry was busy writing a play when out of sheer exhaustion and frustration she threw the manuscript into the trash. Two years later that discarded text became a theatrical hit when a Raisin in the Sun premiered on Broadway in 1959 and paved the way for Hansberry’s highly decorated career as…

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  February 15, 2018

  Art, Art/Culture, Black Artists, black history, journalism, new york, Uncategorized, writing

  A Raisin in the Sun, Artist a Day, artist a day challenge, Black History Month, Black Writers, Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry, Writers

• Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories

  

  When artists leave us too soon we are reminded of their greatness in the items they left behind.  Musicians have libraries of unreleased tracks or compositions, photographers leave behind negatives, contact sheets and undeveloped film, painters have hidden canvases or incomplete work and writers leave behind their words—ideas that weren’t fully developed, concepts that never came to…

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  April 14, 2017

  black history, Museums, Uncategorized, writing

  Authors, Black Writers, Los Angeles, Octavia Butler, Pasadena, Science Fiction, The Huntington Library, writing