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NCA Marks 48th Anniversary, Olatunji Drums of Passion Tribute
 The National Conferernce of Artists (NCA), which was founded by Dr.
Margaret Goss Burroughs in 1959 at what was then Atlanta University prior to merging with Clark College to form Clark-Atlanta University, is the largest and oldest organization of Black artists, educators, curators, art historians and movers and shakers
in the world of Black art. Its mission is “to preserve, promote and develop African American culture and the creative forces of the artists who emanate from the African American and African World Experience.”
It has done this over the past 48 years with chapters in New York; Michigan; Washington, DC; Philadelphia; New Orleans; Chicago; Boston; Texas; Alabama; and Atlanta. Dr. Burroughs also founded the
Southside Community Center, the DuSable
Museum in Chicago, and The Association of
African American Museums, comprised of more
than 60 African American national museums.(
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Emmett Wigglesworth
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Profile
Emmett Wigglesworth, muralist, painter, printmaker, sculptor, fabric designer and poet, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the College of Art in Philadelphia and later enlisted in the military service. He was
honorably discharged from the U.S. Marine Corp. in 1957, and is now a permanent resident of N.Y. since 1958. (
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Leslie Lewis Sword (daughter of the late Reginal Lewis and wife Lloyda) is back with an amazing new play in which she stars and is also co-author. This powerful account of Immaculée
Ilibagiza, a young Rwandan woman who survived the awful genocide fifteen years ago, is based on her autobiography Left to Tell, which reached #6 on the New York Times Best Seller list last year. Immaculée and Leslie teamed up for the off off-Broadway
production which is now at the Ohio theatre on Wooster Street until April 29th. This one-woman show is a MUST to see in my view.
It is a true story of Immaculée, who with 7 other women spent 91 days hidden in a small bathroom in a Catholic parish house, in virtual silence even to the point of not being able to flush the toilet for fear of the Hutu killers would discover them. See
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