Sentences with phrase «african cultural roots»

In 1966, he created Kwanzaa to connect African Americans with their African cultural roots and to enshrine life affirming values into black consciousness: values such as faith, purpose, self - determination, and cooperative economics, to name a few.

Claims like, «Africa is a continent of beggars «and related arguments that Africa is prone to corruption imply that there is a specifically «African cultural root» to these complex socio - political processes (recall the missionaries statement: TIA, This is Africa, as if that says it all).

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If it is in fact a new form of Pan-Africanism, it is one that is rooted in a cultural aesthetic more than a political ambition, its leaders run blogs rather than political parties, and it calls for a reinterpretation rather than return to African culture and values.

The Disney - Marvel movie «Black Panther,» which finds the superheroic T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) returning to his remote African kingdom to assume the throne, roared into theaters over the weekend as a full - blown cultural event, breaking box office records and shattering a myth about the overseas viability of movies rooted in black culture.

The image Miisi had constructed in Britain of the noble African rooted in his cultural values shunning westernization was a myth.

BIENNIAL Dak» Art: Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal (May 6 - June 9, 2016): Established in 1992, Dak» Art is «a platform for contemporary art with cultural roots in Africa.»

An artist who in recent years has been investigating the African roots of American music by reconstructing and photographing historic sites in New York City where this cultural interchange was exemplified, Stan Douglas amps up that approach at David Zwirner this month with a new film set at Columbia Records's 30th Street studio in the»70s, replete with obsessively researched period details.

The human figure composed through the perspective of the African artist rooted on the continent, can be perceived as an embodiment of the environment an extension of the landscape; its cultural dynamics, laden and contentious history, present yet ephemeral state of being, and envisioned future, for society and self.

2004 African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition: Fade (1990 - 2003), Los Angeles Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Embracing the Muse: Africa and African American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY African - American Works on Paper from the Cochran Collection, Long Island Museum of Art, Stony Brook, NY What's That?

Rooted in the personal experiences and reflections of each artist, the works explore family, historical figures and events, and cultural touchstones that resonate within the African American community.

This new series draws deeply from religious roots of African American heritage and cultural traditions predating and following the Civil Rights Era.