Sentences with phrase «african american women»

1996 Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox, African American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA; The Equitable Gallery, New York, NY Explorations in the City of Light: African - American Artists in Paris, 1915 - 1965, The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Bearing Witness: Contemporary African American Women Artists, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; Tuskegee University Art Gallery, Tuskegee, AL

1999 Bearing Witness: Contemporary African American Women Artists, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Design Awards, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

In keeping with Beasley's ongoing interest in combining the personal with the political, some of the clothing is his own, and the numerous housedresses are a reference to his grandmother and other African American women of her generation.

1997 Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox, California African - American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA Explorations in the City of Light: African - American Artists in Paris, 1915 - 1965, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Bearing Witness: Contemporary African American Women Artists, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; St. Paul Museum, St. Paul, MN

Beyond being an individual achievement, the exhibitions were a boon for African American women artists as a whole, whose opportunities over the years at the city's big three museums have been few and far between.

«Art made by some 37 African American women from the 19th century until now is the subject of a powerful group exhibition», National Public Radio, April 2017.

Three brilliant African American women at NASA serve as the brains behind the launching of astronaut John Glenn into orbit.

It includes artists better known as African American women, like Mickalene Thomas and Tschabalala Self, or Latin American, like ektor garcia.

There are many strong African American women artists from very early on.

Nearly two decades ago, Angelou lent her imprimatur to «Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists» a major exhibition of works by 25 artists.

Four African American women are included.

EXHIBITION Drawing attention to the personal and artistic connections of two important African American women artists, «The Art of Elizabeth Catlett: Selections from the Collection of Samella Lewis» at Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco opens on Jan. 16.

[Saar's] interest in the body, specifically the mothering body, presents both the corporeal and cultural endurance of African American women.»

To say I'm passionate about financially empowering others would be an understatement — particularly African American women and couples desperately searching for the tools, knowledge and resources needed to get the financial independence they have worked so, SO hard for.

In this collective biography, vivid stylized portraits introduce ten extraordinary African American women who have shown courage in their struggles against inequality and prejudice.

African American women, afraid of inviting landlords» wrath because of 911 calls they place, often suffered abuse silently as a result.

Through twenty - four sonnets, two Connecticut poets imagine the voices of selected «Little Misses of Color» to tell the courageous story of Prudence Crandall, who opened her nineteenth century academy to young African American women.

Three generations of African American women (grandmother, mother, and daughter) remember their childhoods in this lyrical memoir spanning a century of life in the American South.

Taking an interest in hair - care products, Walker established her own business, developed her own line of products, and used her wealth and success to help empower other African American women.

This young readers» edition of Shetterly's 2016 adult book introduces four African American women working for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in the mid-twentieth century.

Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II.

Historical accounts of African American women during WWII often focus solely on the military service of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps or the performers who entertained during USO - sponsored events.

How do you think high - society Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries rationalized the sexual exploitation of enslaved African American women?

Inspired by E. J. Bellocq's candid photographs of prostitutes in New Orleans, these compassionate poems are lyrical musings on African American women's lives, desires, and dreams.

Shetterly relates the incredible story and invaluable contributions of the African American women employed by NASA as «computers,» due to their mathematical prowess.

Black History Month Woman's History Month Ruby Bridges Rosa Parks Are you planning on teaching your students about Rosa Parks and Ruby Bridges, but having a hard time finding books they can read about these 2 famous African American women?

Cortez's educational background includes three degrees in African American Women's History, including a BA, Georgetown University; MA, New York University; and PhD, University of Southern California.

African American women's rhetoric: The search for dignity, personhood, and honor.

For example, Katherine Charron's focus on Septima Clark not only explores the contributions of a major participant in the struggle for civil rights, but enlightens us about the role of African American women in the civil rights movement which, aside from a few well - known figures, has too often been obscured in other histories.

The movie Hidden Figures, the story of four African American women working at NASA in the 1960s, has reinvigorated the role of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) careers.

Freedom's Sisters is a multimedia exhibition that celebrates 20 African American women, including historic 19th - century figures and contemporary leaders, who helped shape the spirit and substance of the Civil rights Movement in America.

But the percentage shot up to 89 percent among the African American women polled — compared to only 6 percent of African American women who expressed an unfavorable view of charter schools.

The photographs of 12 African American women who have fought injustice are from a series of posters issued by the Bread and Roses Cultural Project of the National Health and Human Service Employees Union (AFL - CIO).

The gender - specific results also reveal that kindergarten funding was associated with significantly lower earnings for African American women.

And let's not even ask why all of the African American women in Detroit end up on the margins of this story.

Drawn from Margot Lee Shetterly's non-fiction account, Hidden Figures dramatizes the work of people whose faces never appeared in broadcasts from Cape Kennedy or Mission Control, a trio of African American women whose facility with numbers...

Oprah will chat with Viola Davis, Alfre Woodard, Philicia Rashad and Gabrielle Union about African American women in Hollywood.

It's believed to be the first play in Broadway history written, directed by and starring women — and African American women at that — and comes during a landmark year for diversity on the New York stage.

«We are also pleased that African American women are a part of this progress and are taking advantage of increased opportunities to make their cinematic imprint.»

Now, after finely analysing the plight of African American women in her first two films, Ava DuVernay intelligently tackles the three historical marches from Selma to Montgomery organized by Martin Luther King in 1965.

She's about to become the first ever African American women nominated in Best Director for 2014's Selma, so that's worth celebrating for sure.

The stories of the three female leads, african american women working for NASA and fighting for the recognition of their work and abilities, are woven together, giving strength and momentum to the narrative.

Noticeably absent from the list are awards players like «Loving,» the Jeff Nichols film about America's interracial marriage ban, «Hidden Figures,» about African American women in the space program and the multi-generational drama «20th Century Women.»

What It's About: «The untold story of three brilliant, African American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: launching a man into orbit.»

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According to statistics in recent years, most African American women and men use the online dating services to find their other half.

African American Women and Interracial Dating.

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