Most Recent Articles from American Visions

• Business and the Arts - Absolut Vodka sponsors works by artists and fashion designers - Brief Article 

  Who knew that when Absolut began commissioning works of art by African Americans the results would be stunning? Last year, artists Valerie Maynard,...

  08/01/00 · More from publication

• Satchmo's Century - celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Louis Armstrong - Brief Article 

  Louis Daniel Armstrong--also known is "Pops," "Dippermouth," "Satchmo" and "Satch" (the last two derivatives of his childhood nickname,...

  08/01/00 by Eugene Jr. Holley · More from publication

• Q&A - scholarships, announcements, etc - Brief Article 

  Queries and Announces Queries and Announces CALL FOR PAPERS National Geographic Television is soliciting proposals from documentary...

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• Black Books for Fall - Bibliography 

  There's a red herring in the marketplace concerning the books that publishers direct at a black readership. It's a story that goes something like...

  08/01/00 by V.R. Peterson · More from publication

• A Legend Will Be Missed - Brief Article - Obituary 

  Jacob Lawrence, the extraordinary and dynamic painter who achieved worldwide fame for his depictions of African-American life, passed away June 9...

  08/01/00 · More from publication

• Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Caterer Thomas J. Dorsey 

  Perhaps no other city in post-colonial America afforded African Americans as much social, economic and political opportunity as did Philadelphia....

  08/01/00 by Sharron Wilkins Conrad · More from publication

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