This rich history is undercut with urgency, as gentrification is displacing Oakland’s Black population at a staggering rate.
Olalekan Jeyifous
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Winning Artists Announced for Monument to Shirley Chisholm, the First US Black Congresswoman
Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous have won the inaugural She Built NYC commission with their dynamic proposal, “Our Destiny, Our Democracy.”
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Learning Political Lessons at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
This year, there are several artworks at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair that are worth digging deeper into.