Art
Playwright Iyaba Ibo Mandingo Returns to Springfield with Award-Winning Stageplay SELF PORTRAIT: unFRAMED
Meet Iyaba Ibo Mandingo, formerly Kenny Athel George DeCruise – painter, poet, husband, father, son, and undocumented immigrant from Antigua.
At the age of...
Africa
Amazon Best Selling Author Antoine Bandele Takes Readers to New But Familiar Places in African and African American Literature
Antoine Bandele was born and raised in Los Angeles, though he spent one year in Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Washington while his father served...
Africa
How a Mass Suicide by Slaves Caused the Legend of the Flying African to Take Off
In May 1803, a group of enslaved Africans from present-day Nigeria, of Ebo or Igbo descent, leaped from a single-masted ship into Dunbar Creek...
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ArtsHub Virtual Summit: “How To Recover and Thrive” provides support to artists and businesses in the Western Massachusetts Creative Economy, January 10-14, 2022
The ArtsHub Virtual Summit: How to Recover and Thrive welcomes emerging and established artists, performers, arts managers, and those in creative fields to join...
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“A Mark in the Unmarked Place”
By Claudia Moss
He slumped. Shoulders leaning forward like he supported two worlds, a young black Atlas, stumbling under the weight of his bolder. He...
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FOR THE CULTURE: Diaspora Strong Bookstore with Mack Writtens
Written by Alan-Michael Chest, M.Ed., LMHC
Springfield Native Terrance Mack aka. “Mack Writtens” is an educator with five years of experience in education who specializes...
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FILM REVIEW & POLITICAL COMMENTARY: BlackKkKlansman, directed by Spike Lee
Film Review & Political Commentary:
BlackKkKlansman, directed by Spike Lee, is based on a New York Times bestseller by Ron Stallworth. Available for home viewing...
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The Prosser Files
Sheila Grandison-Marshall: The Wonderful World of A Writer/Author
Sheila’s works are non-fictional and humorous. She has published 3 books and has 2 more in the...