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Join us for another night of #DLECTRICITY at 7 pm! Produced by @MidtownDetroit this outdoor light + art celebration include 3 installations at The Wright. Attendees are immersed in groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design & engineering!
Join us for #DLECTRICITY tonight at 7 pm! Produced by @MidtownDetroit this outdoor light + art celebration include 3 installations at The Wright. Attendees are immersed in groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design & engineering!
Join us for #DLECTRICITY tomorrow & Friday at 7 pm! Produced by @MidtownDetroit this outdoor light + art celebration include 3 installations at The Wright. Attendees are immersed in groundbreaking installations of video art, new media, lasers, interactive design & engineering!
#OnThisDayInBlackHistory (1988) - Yo! MTV Raps debuts. The pilot was one of the highest-rated programs to ever air on MTV at that point, and the show itself is credited as a crucial element to the spread of hip hop around the world. Watch it here! https://t.co/XnetpOqFl4
Get access to fashion industry giants from the comfort of home: Explore the art and history of African Americans in the business with top design illustrators who are leading the resurgence of illustration today! Tonight at 6 PM: https://t.co/bKEQetVhHJ
#OTD (1804) - The Ohio legislature passed "Black Laws" designed to restrict the legal rights of free blacks. These laws were part of the trend to increasingly severe restrictions on all blacks in both North and South before the Civil War.
#OTD (1859) - An armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown, launched an assault on the federal armory located at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). It was a main precipitating incident to the American #CivilWar.
#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#HarlemRenaissance #artist Richard Bruce Nugent explored sexuality & black identity in his poems, short stories, & erotic drawings. For many years, Nugent was the only African-American writer willing to clearly pronounce his homosexuality in print. #PrideMonth #BlackHistory
#OTD (1851) - Abolitionist & #WomensRights #activist #SojournerTruth delivers her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Read it here: https://t.co/oC2qwrxd4Y #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory
Artwork: John Foster Dyess; Steve Simon
TODAY @ 2: Piper Carter & Mahogany Jones lead an empowering program featuring conversation, video & performances by Aisha Ellis, Boog Brown, Sanaa Su, Sombade, Dorthea Thomas, Princess Covergirl Taylor, DJ Haintso, DJ Afe, Alexn Wundrland, Tone & Lauren J https://t.co/wAQU3fGbB1