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A native of Apex, David Wilson has created public art in North Carolina and studio works on display across the United States, Germany, Spain and Japan. His Divergent Threads, Lucent Memories consists of 14 glass panels now on display at the recently-opened Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts +...
African-American folk artist Minnie Evans, a native of Long Creek (near Wilmington), rose from humble beginnings to international recognition as a result of the crayon drawings she created in her forties. She drew the inspiration for her colorful, intricate works from dreams.
Through Sunday, March 7, the...
The University Galleries at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro is featuring Monuments of Humanity: The Art of John Wilson through Friday, March 5. This retrospective of the African-American sculptor’s work covers 60 years and also includes several drawings and prints.
Wilson was...
Last fall’s opening of the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, part of the new Wells Fargo Cultural Campus in Charlotte, provided a permanent home for the renowned John and Vivian Hewitt Collection of African-American Art. It includes works by celebrated artists including Romare...
Today the Carolina Chocolate Drops release a new album, Genuine Negro Jig, their first on Nonesuch Records.
The Chocolate Drops formed in 2005 after members Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson met during the Black Banjo Gathering at Appalachian State University in Boone. They continue Piedmont...
In 1941 African-American artist Jacob Lawrence created a 22-painting series The Legend of John Brown to illustrate the life of the 19th century abolitionist. Because the paintings became too fragile to display, Lawrence was commissioned by the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1977 to recreate them as limited...
The only Southeast stop of a national touring exhibition entitled Art of the Masters: A Survey of African-American Images, 1980-2000 is being hosted by the Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County through Saturday, March 6.
Included are more than 60 works of art from 36 national and international...
Atlanta-based photographer Sheila Pree Bright explored the identities of young people and their relationship to the United States by posing each participant, aged 18 to 25, with an American flag. The resulting photography exhibit, Young Americans, is on display at the Diggs Gallery in Winston-Salem through...
Four-time Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard has played with a host of jazz luminaries including Branford Marsalis and Art Blakey while composing soundtracks for films including Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, Inside Man and When the Levees Broke, a documentary about the tragic flooding of...
George Higgs was born on a farm near Tarboro in 1930 and learned to play the harmonica from his father, who enjoyed spirituals and folk songs. Today Higgs plays blues guitar as well as harmonica and tours and records though his association with Hillsborough’s Music Maker Relief Foundation (MMRF).
He’ll...
Southern Voices: Black, White & Blues pairs Asheville performance poet Glenis Redmond and Brattleboro, Vermont, blues guitarist and historian Scott Ainslie for an evening of music, stories and poetry. Together they celebrate the strength and spirit of Muddy Waters, Zora Neale Hurston, Robert Johnson and...
Dreams of a King, a musical drama starring Shirley Jean Glover Mitchell Johnson, tells the story of her time spent with civil rights legend Martin Luther King, Jr. See it at the Barn Dinner Theatre in Greensboro through Friday, Feb. 12.
Established in 1962, the Barn is the oldest continually operating dinner...
The Charlotte Folk Society presents blues guitarist, storyteller and buckdancer John Dee Holeman in a free public concert Friday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m.
An Orange County native, Holeman received a 1988 NEA Folk Heritage Award, a 1994 North Carolina Folk Heritage Award and still tours at age 80. The concert...
Described by The New York Times as “a subversive, seriously funny new theater piece,” The Shipment will be presented by Carolina Performing Arts at UNC-Chapel Hill Friday, Feb. 12, and Saturday, Feb.13.
Korean-American playwright and director Young Jean Lee uses the play to explore the challenges...
The “bodacious, brazen and bawdy” conversations of four women who meet every week to play cards provide the humor in the North Carolina Black Repertory Company’s Four Queens – No Trump, Friday, Feb. 19, through Sunday, Feb. 21, and Friday, Feb. 26, through Sunday, Feb. 28, in Greensboro.
As they...
While the main stage of the historic 150-year-old Thalian Hall in Wilmington undergoes renovations, a lively program of entertainment continues in its intimate, club-like Rainbow Room.
It is an ideal place to hear jazz vocalist Kellylee Evans, whose musical stylings have led to recent invitations to open for...
The historic Paramount Theatre in Goldsboro presents Mike Wiley and David zum Brunnen in Life is So Good, the true story of a slave’s grandson who goes to school and learns to read at age 98.
The performance takes place Friday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m. The play is adapted from Richard Glaubman’s bestseller...
Playwright August Wilson’s Fences tells the story of Troy Maxon, an illiterate garbage collector whose chance at stardom in the Negro baseball leagues hits the ceiling of racial prejudice. The play explores justice, fair treatment and social change affecting four generations of African-Americans during the...
The acclaimed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater brings a diverse program of classics, recent favorites and premieres to the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center Tuesday, Feb. 9, through Sunday, Feb.14.
There will be different dance programs on different evenings including Ailey’s signature...
The Harlem Gospel Choir, featuring the finest singers and musicians from Harlem’s black churches and throughout the New York region, comes to the Dunn Center for the Performing Arts Saturday, Feb. 6, at 8 p.m.
The choir has performed for Nelson Mandela at Yankee Stadium, for the Pope in Central Park, and...
Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte presents Black Pearl Sings!, the Depression-era story of a song collector from the Library of Congress who discovers a “living library of folk songs” in the form of the jailed Pearl, a descendant of slaves. The give-and-take between the two women, each with agendas, makes...
Durham’s Common Ground Theatre presents Mama Juggs, a four-part monologue about female body image written and performed by ‘rie Shontel Friday, Feb. 5, with additional performances Friday, March 19, and Saturday, March 20, at 8 p.m.
Shontel portrays characters aged 17, 27, 47 and 100 and explores how...
Artwork by Lucia Mendez
Rites, rituals and women’s roles as healers are the subjects of La Sombra y El Espíritu: Womens’ Healing Rituals in the Diaspora featuring works by Atlanta-based photographer Lucia Mendez and Dominican painter Wendy Phillips. They are on display through Friday, April 30, at...
Touring Theatre of North Carolina’s production of The Life and Times of Fannie Lou Hamer, based on the life of the acclaimed civil rights activist from Mississippi, can be seen at Triad Stage’s UpStage Cabaret in Greensboro Thursday, Feb. 4, through Saturday, February 6, at 8 p.m.
Dr. Charmaine McKissick...
Actor, author, director, screenwriter and producer Tyler Perry has earned a loyal following around his outspoken comedic character Mabel “Madea” Simmons. He brings her role to life on stage in Madea’s Big Happy Family in three cities across North Carolina in February.
See it at Raleigh’s RBC...
The African-American Dance Ensemble, founded in 1984 by artistic director Chuck Davis, preserves and shares traditional African and African-American dance and music. Enjoy an afternoon performance by the ensemble at Elizabeth City State University’s Mickey L. Burnim Fine Arts Center Sunday, Jan. 31, at 4...
Grammy Award-winning contemporary gospel singer Yolanda Adams will be among the headliners at a free ecumenical service marking the opening of the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro.
A 300-person choir drawn from local churches and universities will also be on hand for the event,...
Bassist, composer, educator, actor and Fayetteville native John Brown is the director of the jazz program and associate professor of the practice of music at Duke University as well as the director of the Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble. His John Brown Quintet combines jazz originals with classics from John...
Conductor Dr. Henry Panion, the producer of two Grammy Award-winning recordings, leads the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and Community Gospel Choir in Touched by Gospel, a Friday, Jan. 29, program featuring 50 years of gospel music that influenced the civil rights movement.
Dr. Panion is best known for his...
Watusi (Hard Edge) by Alma Thomas
President Obama’s impact on art and culture in America will be the topic of a discussion by Mark Anthony Neal, professor of black popular culture at Duke University Sunday, Jan. 24, at 2 p.m. at Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham.
The free program,...
Divergent Threads Now Open at Gantt Center
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N.C. Native Evans’ Work on Display in Fayetteville
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Wilson’s Monuments of Humanity at North Carolina A&T
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Gantt Center Showcases African-American Artists
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Chocolate Drops’ New Album Drops
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Ackland Presents Lawrence’s John Brown Paintings
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National Exhibition Stops in Fayetteville
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Bright Explores Identity in Young Americans
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African-American Read-In at the State Capitol
The 21st annual National African-American Read-In brings local authors, community leaders and students to the State Capitol in Raleigh Saturday, Feb. 27, to read from works by their favorite African-American writers. The event runs from noon to 4 p.m. and will include fiction and nonfiction works for...Posted by
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Memorial Hall Will Feature Jazz Trumpeter
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Enjoy Gospel with Legendary Musicians
Durham Musicians Reunited’s Wings of Angels Gospel Event Saturday, Feb. 20, features legendary musicians The Famous Jordanaires, UBC Hearts of Praise Mime Ministry, the Singing Angels Featuring William Rigsbee and Company, and the Majestic Kingdom Music Ministry. This is the first fundraiser for Musicians...Posted by
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Music Makers to Perform in Raleigh
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Southern Voices Features Poetry and Blues
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Jazz Up Your Valentine’s Day
The Fifth Annual Valentine’s Jazz Festival at the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham features the talented jazz ensembles of Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University. The festival takes place Sunday, Feb. 14 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. For more information or to order tickets visit...Posted by
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Barn Dinner Theatre Presents Dreams of a King
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Free Blues Concert in Charlotte
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Carolina Performing Arts Gets the Shipment
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N.C. Black Repertory Company Holds the Cards
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Rainbow Room to welcome Kellylee Evans
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Life is So Good in Goldsboro
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Justice Theatre Project Presents Story of Social Change
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Alvin Ailey Dance to Grace Blumenthal Stage
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Sounds of Harlem come to Rocky Mount
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Pearl Sings in Charlotte
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One Woman Show Examines Body Image
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Exhibition Explores Women as Healers
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Play Showcases Civil Rights Activist
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Madea Comes to North Carolina
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Elizabeth City State to Host AADE
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Concert Marks Opening of Civil Rights Museum
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John Brown to Jazz Up Davis Theatre
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Program Highlights Civil Rights Gospel
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Art and the Obamas
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Linda A. Carlisle, Secretary; Beverly Eaves Perdue, Governor
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