Art & Culture

REGIONAL ARTS COMMISSION APPOINTS VANESSA COOKSEY AS PRESIDENT AND CEO

by Publisher | October 28, 2020 | Art and Culture, Local News | 0 Comments

HIGHLY RESPECTED CIVIC LEADER BRINGS SIGNIFICANT CROSS-SECTOR EXPERIENCE TO EXECUTE RAC’S FIVE-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN AND ENHANCE ITS IMPACT WITHIN THE ST. LOUIS ARTS SECTOR

Story of Ocoee Massacre finally being told 100 Years Later

by Publisher | October 30, 2020 | Art and Culture, Curated JUSTICE | 0 Comments

Official narrative of the terror for decades was obscured or excused by a whitewashing of facts Allen Franks was just 18 when he led five siblings hand-in-hand and carried a sixth, hisdisabled brother, on his back through swampy woods out of Ocoee, away from a mob of...

African Americans have gone by many names in the US. Lately, the term BIPOC is spreading on social media. Here’s where it comes from.

by Publisher | June 20, 2020 | Art and Culture | 0 Comments

Protesters participate in the BIPOC Mothers March on June 14, 2020 in Minneapolis Minnesota. Black Americans have been called by many names in the United States. African American, Negro, colored and the unutterable slur that rhymes with bigger. In recent weeks, as...

Baltimore Museum Suddenly Halts Event Designed to Increase Equity

by Publisher | October 28, 2020 | Art and Culture | 0 Comments

Just hours before a planned auction, the Baltimore Museum of Art decided Wednesday to halt the sale of three paintings by Andy Warhol, Clyfford Still and Brice Marden to generate funds for its diversity and equity programs. Still’s “1957-G” and Marden’s “3” were set...

Soldiers Memorial Museum Opens Japanese Tribute Exhibit

by Publisher | July 11, 2021 | Art and Culture, Curated HOME | 0 Comments

Exhibits Opens July 24 at the Soldiers Memorial Museum.

Diversionary Theatre’s Announces Anti-Racism Action Plan

by Publisher | October 23, 2020 | Art and Culture, Featured | 0 Comments

Diversionary Theatre announces their Anti-Racism Action plan as a response to the We See You White American Theatre and the Black Lives Matter movements. Regarding their new plan, Executive Artistic Director, Matt M. Morrow says, “I think the action plan speaks...

Art Museum Makes History with New Pick

by Publisher | June 27, 2021 | Art and Culture, Local Game Changers | 0 Comments

Kim to serve as first female director of the institution as it seeks to enhance community engagement and inclusivity The Saint Louis Art Museum has named Min Jung Kim its next Barbara B. Taylor Director, succeeding retiring Director Brent R. Benjamin. The selection...

The Voice: A newspaper that gave Black Britain a megaphone

by Publisher | October 25, 2020 | Art and Culture, Featured, Social Justice | 0 Comments

When clashes between residents and police erupted onto the streets of Brixton in 1981, in the heart of London’s African-Caribbean community, the British press largely told one side of the story. The Brixton riots , as they became known, were primarily depicted...

‘The Other Black Girl’ Exposes the Horror of Being a Black Woman in Corporate America

by Publisher | September 17, 2023 | Art and Culture, Featured | 0 Comments

Since publishing The Other Black Girl in 2021, the New York Times bestselling novel has been adapted into a Hulu original series and captures the experience when Nella (Sinclair Daniel), the only Black woman at Wagner Books, befriends Hazel (Ashleigh Murray), a new...

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