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Perhaps it is only fitting that Juneteenth (Random House; 368 pages; $25), Ralph Ellison's long-awaited second novel, almost 50 years in the making, would be published in 1999, the centennial year of Duke Ellington's birth. For Ellington and Ellison, along with the painter Romare Bearden, were practitioners...
DRAMA America may have no finer playwright than August Wilson, the two-time Pulitzer prizewinner whose cycle of plays depicting black life in the U.S. during each of the decades of the 20th century (including Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and The Piano Lesson) often stings with the power...
The show of all 60 paintings of Jacob Lawrence's Migration series, at the Phillips Collection in Washington, is an event that no one interested in African-American cultural history -- or, in a wider way, the story of American painting as a whole -- could pass up. The works haven't...
ART Romare Bearden's sharply observant imagery of black life
Romare Bearden (1912-88) was one of the finest collagists of the 20th century and the most distinguished black visual artist America has so far produced: the only one, perhaps, who rivaled in his own time and field the achievements of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, Alvin Ailey and Arthur...