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ERNIE CRICHLOW MEMORIAL AT MEDGAR EVERS
 Ernest Crichlow, born in Brooklyn on June 19, 1914, the second of nine children born to parents who came to the U.S. from Barbados, and became one of the most important artists that gained fame after the Great Depression. Ernie, as he was
affectionately called, loved to paint images of his people, neighborhood kids, immigrant families, real people. And, he was exceptionally good at it. After he finished with high school, he began the study of art, first commercial art, and later fine art at New York
University and the famed Art Students League, where he later returned to teach. Ernie also taught in several New York schools and The Brooklyn Museum Art School, Shaw University in North Carolina and New York State University at New Paltz. |
Katherine Dunham Joins the Ancestors at 96
 The World lost another extraordinary human being, as one of the most recognized and
influential choreographers and trendsetters of dance, Katherine Dunham joined the ancestors on Sunday evening, May 21, 2006. Miss Dunham, as she was affectionately called, celebrated her 96th birthday last year, as a tribute was held at New York’s Theater of
the Riverside Church with the grand lady in attendance.
Virtually all of the accomplished dancers in African centered, Caribbean modern jazz, have studied or owe their success to “the Dunham Technique.” She was a dancer, choreographer, humanitarian, anthropologist and scholar.
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