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The Southwest Art Fest featured Frank Frazier’s Visual Arts Collection in Killeen

#NNPA BlackPress, Arts, Culture, Entertainment, NNPA, NNPA Events / By aframnews

By: Elisabeth Treadwell, Texas Metro News The 2021 Southwest Art Fest (SWAF) hosted by Endeavors Performing Arts & Special Events Venue in Killeen, TX featured the artistic works of internationally renowned visual artist Frank Frazier. Frazier, a retired disabled Vietnam Army Veteran, led a caravan of other amazing artists from all over the U.S. to …

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These sisters want you to find your “WOMANISH”

#NNPA BlackPress, Entertainment / By aframnews

Lahoma Scarlette, NNPA Newswire Contributor The new WOMANISH exhibit wants women everywhere to know they are the “ish” and to repeat this mantra to themselves, daily. The new, interactive art experience made its debut in the Wynwood Arts District on June 30, after its 2020 launch in Chicago amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The 5,000-square-foot traveling …

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Award-winning poet, author, and editor Kwame Dawes, PhD

PRESS ROOM: Kwame Dawes and the Poetry Foundation Reintroduce American Life in Poetry

#NNPA BlackPress, Black History, Community, Education, National, News, NNPA, NNPA Newswire / By aframnews

Award-winning poet, author, and editor Kwame Dawes, PhD hopes new readers will connect with American Life in Poetry by finding columns that are approachable and speak to their interests, particularly for new poetry readers. With over 60 different themes that can be combined while searching, users can find a poem that speaks to gardening and unrequited love from the archive which includes more than 800 poems.

FILM REVIEW: ‘Sometimes Always Never’ is touching film about sustaining within loss

#NNPA BlackPress, Business, Chicago, Chicago Crusader, Commentary, Entertainment, Film, Movies, National, News, NNPA, Video / By aframnews

CHICAGO CRUSADER — The Virtual Cinema experience was created to assist temporarily closed independent theaters. By purchasing a “ticket,” you will be directly supporting Music Box Theatre, as all revenue is being shared between distributor and exhibitor just as if you bought your ticket at the theater’s box office.

OP-ED: Returning to School in the Fall Isn’t Safe Without a Vaccine

#NNPA BlackPress, Chicago, Chicago Defender, Commentary, Community, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Education, Family, Featured, National, News, NNPA, NNPA Coronavirus Task Force / By aframnews

CHICAGO DEFENDER — For CPS employees like myself who work with Preschool children ages 3-5, how are we supposed to ensure they maintain 6 feet from us and one another? How are we supposed to explain a pod to them? Preschool children are explorers, exploring everything and everyone around them. It’s how they learn and develop critical thinking and social-emotional skills. Exactly how does one explore inside a pod? Before the pandemic hit handwashing was a skill most struggled with remembering, so how are we supposed to drive the dire importance of it to them now from inside of a pod? I can tell you now that ten preschoolers kept inside a pod will be utter chaos and a COVID-19 Petri dish filled with sneezes, dirty hands, and soiled masks. If the masks even stay on past the first 5 minutes of class.

IN MEMORIAM: Leaders reflect on the life of Congressman John Lewis

#NNPA BlackPress, Black History, Chicago, Chicago Crusader, Commentary, Community, Featured, Government, In Memoriam, National, News, NNPA, Politics / By aframnews

THE CHICAGO CRUSADER — On Sunday, March 7, 1965 in Selma, Alabama, Lewis and fellow activist Hosea Williams led hundreds of marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were on their way to the state capitol fighting for the right to vote. On the other side of the bridge were the Alabama State Troopers on horses. After crossing the bridge, the troopers attacked marchers and beat Lewis with a club. He suffered a fractured skull that nearly killed him. The incident became known as “Bloody Sunday.”

Legendary Singer Deniece Williams Joins Other Big Stars at NNPA Virtual Conference

#NNPA BlackPress, Black History, Business, Commentary, Community, Entertainment, Music, National, News, NNPA, NNPA Newswire, Stacey M. Brown, Stacy Brown, Video / By aframnews

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Williams, who transformed R&B, pop and gospel music over her extraordinary five-decade career, joined Stephanie Mills, Anthony Hamilton, Carlos Santana, and Salt-N-Pepa in a star-studded lineup of musical talent appearing at the first virtual conference in the 193-year history of the Black Press and the 80th anniversary of the NNPA.

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The Southwest Art Fest featured Frank Frazier’s Visual Arts Collection in Killeen

These sisters want you to find your “WOMANISH”

PRESS ROOM: Kwame Dawes and the Poetry Foundation Reintroduce American Life in Poetry

FILM REVIEW: ‘Sometimes Always Never’ is touching film about sustaining within loss

OP-ED: Returning to School in the Fall Isn’t Safe Without a Vaccine

IN MEMORIAM: Leaders reflect on the life of Congressman John Lewis

Legendary Singer Deniece Williams Joins Other Big Stars at NNPA Virtual Conference

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