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Archibald Motley painting Blues (1929). The Chicago Black Renaissance (also known as the Black Chicago Renaissance) was a creative movement that blossomed out of the Chicago Black Belt on the city's South Side and spanned the 1930s and 1940s before a transformation in art and culture took place in the mid-1950s through the turn of the century.
Susan Cayton Woodson (October 18, 1918 – January 31, 2013) was an American art collector and activist. [1] A central figure in the Chicago Black Renaissance, she was critical in promoting and collecting works by black artists, such as William McBride, Eldzier Cortor, and Charles White.
The exhibition opened in Chicago in 2018, traveling to New York City and Los Angeles. [44] [45] White "was a humanist, drawn to the physical body and more literal representations of the lives of African-Americans," according to Lauren Warnecke for the Chicago Tribune. [44]
In 1922, Genevieve Forbes took Tribune readers on an armchair tour of Chicago’s demimonde. She regularly covered crime and high society, but it was a slow news day. So she wrote about black and ...
The entertainment industry is in the midst of a cultural transformation that is driving a new renaissance for African-American artists, Lena Waithe and others observed Friday night during a panel ...
The Chicago Black Renaissance and women's activism (U of Illinois Press, 2023. Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Migration and How It Changed America (1991). Logan, John R., Weiwei Zhang, and Miao David Chunyu. "Emergent ghettos: Black neighborhoods in New York and Chicago, 1880–1940." American Journal of Sociology 120.4 (2015 ...
Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance.
The Black Reparations Co-Governance Task Force “will conduct a comprehensive study and examination of all policies that have harmed Black Chicagoans from the slavery era to present day,” and ...