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Using images to change history
The civil rights movement was full of dynamic and evocative images. Today, even many of us born after its iconic moments were captured on film can describe Martin Luther King Jr.'s outstretched arm pointing a sea of people toward a future decades beyond...Tags: Justice and Rights, Lower East Side, Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, Minority Groups
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Chrysler photo show plumbs the national character
Few things attract our attention more than the face of another human.
Familiar and mysterious at the same time, it's a perennial subject in art, spawning more images over the centuries than any other subject.
With the invention of photography in the...Tags: Patti Smith, Hair and Nails, Irving Penn, Human Body, Arts and Culture
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'More American Photographs' offers a glimpse of America's recession
Culture Monster100 works present best known examples from the Farm Security Administartion Depression-era photography program alongside recently commissioned photos from 12 contemporary artists of the recent recession.... -
Remembering photographer Jerome Liebling
Culture MonsterJerome Liebling, the renowned documentary photographer and filmmaker, died late last week in Northampton, Mass. He was 87. During his long career, Liebling specialized in capturing street life around the country. His photographs documented the lives of... -
Crealde School of Art announces 2011-12 season
Orlando Arts BlogHere is the Crealde School of Art 2011-12 exhibition line-up: Alice & William Jenkins Gallery Formally opened in 1980, the Jenkins Gallery's mission is to exhibit the work of noted and established Florida artists, as well as to introduce national and... -
Florida African-American communities focus of photography exhibit
Orlando Arts BlogBringing communities together is a key part of the mission of Crealde School of Art's Hannibal Square Heritage Center. To that end, “Mid-Century: A Photographic View of Three African-American Communities in Florida” will be on view at the... -
Macy's Aventura salutes Gordon Parks as part of Black History Month
Staff WriterAs part of Black History Month, Macy's in Aventura Mall will honor Gordon Parks Saturday with the photographic art installation viewing of iconic works from the artist, composer, author ("The Learning Tree") and filmmaker ("Shaft"). Parks' life will...Tags: African-American History Month, Macy's, Tyler Perry, Aventura, Black History
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Martin Luther King Jr.: 12 essential reads
Today the nation honors the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the reverend and activist who led the American civil rights movement. As King studied nonviolence as practiced by Gandhi and imagined by Henry David Thoreau, now his own life and work are the...
Tags: Stanford University, Justice and Rights, Journalism, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes
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Student accused of putting hand sanitizer in teacher's drink
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsA Wichita student faces possible expulsion for putting hand sanitizer in a teacher's drink. Wichita Schools Spokesperson Susan Arensman says the incident happened last week at Gordon Parks Academy. But the principal didn't know who did it until another...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Sports, Golf, Students
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They're black and they're proud
Photographer Gordon Parks' "Ethel Shariff in Chicago" depicts the daughter of religious activist Elijah Muhammad in a nun's habit, standing at the fore of rows of black women in the same attire. In Parks' "American Gothic," the late lensman who documented...
Tags: Norton Museum of Art, Otis Redding, Justice and Rights, Sculpture, Entertainment
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Police arrest man who approached Gordon Parks Academy student
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsWichita police arrest a man who was reported as acting suspiciously near Gordon Parks Academy Thursday morning. Police say a girl was walking to school when she was approached by a man who asked her if she wanted a ride. She declined, but the man got... -
Five children removed from Wichita foster home
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsWichita police removed five children from a foster care home because of suspicion of abuse. Police say a school nurse noticed bruising on 6-year-old twin boys at Gordon Parks Academy. The nurse reported it to police and an investigation was started....Tags: Abusive Behavior, Health and Medical Professionals
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