Black Nativity: ■The Black & African Art Museum of TWOAA® Museum Curator Tres Mali Scott
The Black & African Art Museum of TWOAA® Museum Curator Tres Mali Scott
Genocide in Rwanda Africa’s violent history: From National Geographic: ■The Black & African Art Museum of TWOAA®: The Writings of African-Americans®
Africa’s Violent History of Slavery!
From American slavery to the genocide in Rwanda, Africa’s violent history. Like Israel being called the people of God, the United States of American is considered a “Super Power”. The violent end of a history of violent slavery, the use of the law & ethics, and continued education has removed the physical bands of slavery. Higher education removes the mental bands. And now we work to help other countries to live civilized, with laws that follow International Human Rights.
Freedom Bound :■The Black & African Art Museum of TWOAA®: The Writings of African-Americans®
‘The Smithsoinan Spotlight also features Freedom Bound, Ends March 2, 2014, a similar photo.
In March 1863 a slave named Gordon enlisted in the Union Army in Baton Rouge, where the photographic team of McPherson & Oliver made a portrait of his whip-scarted back (click to view). Gordon’s story is one of 20 told in “Bound for Freedom’s Light: African-Americans and the Civil War,” an exhibit of vintage photographs and prints at the National Portrait Gallery.
Paul Bisceglio
The Smithsonian Magazine (Vol. 44 no.3 June 2013)
‘Bound for Freedom’s light: African Americans and the Civil War (click for actual photo)
Mohammed Mubarak’s Art Work “Obama Home”: ■The Black & African Art Museum of TWOAA®: The Writings of African-Americans®
Mohammed Mubarak’s art work “Obama Home” looks like the “Two Faces” of Obama. President Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America and the first African-American President of the United States of America.
Mubarak also has portraits of the Liston and Ali fight as well as, photography and murals. See this website www.mubarakart.com or email him at qmubarak06@aol.com to get your copy of American History.
Row, Row, Row by Curtis E. James looks like “Southern Living” to me:■The Black & African Art Museum of TWOAA®: The Writings of African-Americans®
The artwork, Row, Row, Row by Curtis E. James looks like old “Southern living” to me.
Notice in the artwork the bathtub with “feet” and the plumbing that comes from the floor, floor plumbing. This piece of artwork reminds me of my own “Southern living” during my Historically Black College daze at Langston University in Langston, Oklahoma.
I rented an old wood floor house in what we called, “The Village”. It looks nothing like “Westwood village of UCLA”. Tres Mali
The Writings of African-Americans®: Happy Mother’s Day!:■The Black & African Art Museum of TWOAA®: The Writings of African-Americans®
Happy Black History Month The USA & Canada! Feburary:■The Black & African Art Museum of TWOAA®: The Writings of African-Americans®
Did you know that in the United Kingdom, Black History Month is celebrated in October? Yes, it is celebrated in the United Kingdom in October.
The United States of America and Canada celebrate Black History Month in Feburary!
Happy St. Valentine’s Day from The Writings of African-Americans®: Legends of the Saints of “Valentine” & Vintage African-American Art:■The Black & African Art Museum of TWOAA®: The Writings of African-Americans®
Legends of the Saints of “Valentine”:
Saint Valentine of Terni and his disciples.The Early Medieval acta of either Saint Valentine were expounded briefly in Legenda Aurea.[15] According to that version, St Valentine was persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II in person. Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him, attempting to get him to convert to Roman paganism in order to save his life. Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead. Because of this, he was executed. Before his execution, he is reported to have performed a miracle by healing the blind daughter of his jailer.
Since Legenda Aurea still provided no connections whatsoever with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young men. When Claudius found out about this, he had Valentine arrested and thrown in jail.
There is an additional modern embellishment to The Golden Legend, provided by American Greetings to History.com, and widely repeated despite having no historical basis whatsoever. On the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he would have written the first “valentine” card himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved,[16] as the jailer’s daughter whom he had befriended and healed,[17] or both. It was a note that read “From your Valentine.”[16](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine’s_Day)
About the Art:
Even though we still enjoy this artwork, it originates from another era in time for African-American history. Notice the skin colors & watermelon
sterotype that are rare in this era of African-American art.
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