AfriCOBRA, the Chicago-based art collective that helped develop the Black arts movement, celebrates its 50th anniversary in a new retrospective.
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For Gerald Williams, a Co-Founder of AfriCOBRA, Transnational Black Aesthetics Are as Relevant as Ever
Gerald Williams has lived in seven countries and five different states within the US, but his artistic roots are here on Chicago’s south side, the birthplace of AfriCOBRA, of which he was a member.
Fifty Years Later, Artists Continue to Spread the Message of the Black Panther Party
An exhibition honors the struggles of African Americans from the politically militant 1960s to the present.