​‘This is rarely taught’: an exhibition examining African-Atlantic history

 
Lois Mailou Jones - The Green Door, 1981

“Earlier that day she had presided over the US Senate confirmation of the supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who would mark the occasion by quoting poetry: ‘I am the dream and the hope of the slave.’ Then, in the evening, Vice-President Kamala Harris headed to the National Gallery of Art in Washington for a reception celebrating the opening of Afro-Atlantic Histories, a landmark exhibition that explores the brutal history of the transatlantic slave trade and cultural legacy of the African diaspora. ...”

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