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ART FOR ADVOCACY: Black Lives Matter

ART FOR ADVOCACY: Black Lives Matter

by Talented Artists from around Madison | September 26, 2020 | Feature

Stolen by Shiloah Symone Coley created on the Overture Center for the Arts building “I’ve always been fascinated with people’s stories. Historically, heroic efforts have been made to create positive representations of Black bodies to counteract the surplus of harmful...
Daniella Echeverría: ‘I Did NOT Paint the Mural to Make State Street Pretty or Palatable to White People’

Daniella Echeverría: ‘I Did NOT Paint the Mural to Make State Street Pretty or Palatable to White People’

by Daniella Echeverría | September 25, 2020 | Feature

It took 8 minutes and 46 seconds for Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin to murder George Floyd on May 25. We all have witnessed the protests that followed, including in Madison. The city asked me to paint a mural on the boards that had been used to protect the...
UMOJA Publisher/Editor: The Black Arts Movement Takes Centerstage

UMOJA Publisher/Editor: The Black Arts Movement Takes Centerstage

by Yvette L. Craig | September 25, 2020 | Publishers Note

Art and protest have often gone hand in hand. They do more than just evoke likes on someone’s social media feed or catch the eye of a passersby. Murals have been the primary artistic response to the outrage over police brutality and racism. The street art inspired by...
Fists, Faces and Freedom: Demonstrating Solidarity One Brush Stroke After Another

Fists, Faces and Freedom: Demonstrating Solidarity One Brush Stroke After Another

by Yvette L. Craig | September 25, 2020 | Feature

A potent mixture of raw emotions, empowering vision, and colorful paint has resulted in some powerful protest art along Madison’s iconic State Street, lifting a number of African American artists out of cultural isolation in the process. Artists with social platforms...
Black Lives Matter Art for Advocacy

Black Lives Matter Art for Advocacy

by Comfort Wasikhongo | September 25, 2020 | Cover Artwork

Cover Art:Comfort Wasikhongo

Civil Rights 2023

Community Profile & Events

Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington Descendant Finds His Ancestral Calling


Community Profile & Events

Urban League of Greater Madison’s MLK Youth Recognition Honors Student Demonstrating Leadership, Intelligence and Community Engagement


Community Profile & Events

39th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Youth Recognition Breakfast Award Winners


Cover Artwork

Civil Rights 2023 — Let Freedom Ring


Publishers Note

UMOJA Publisher/Editor: A Journalist’s Silent Unsung Civil Rights Era ContributionUMOJA Publisher/Editor:


Feature

Dr. Jonathan Overby: 


Community Profile & Events

Rosa Thompson’s Black Girl Magic: 


Community Profile & Events

Recognizing Excellence at Women in Focus’ Annual ‘I Have a Dream’ Scholarship Gala


Feature

Donzaleigh Abernathy Shares Memories of Two Civil Rights Pillars She Loved and Shared with the World


Feature

Drucilla Byars: 


Civil Rights Through the Arts

The Artist and His Audacity to Paint


Civil Rights Through the Arts

Dr. Ed Holmes: 


Community Profile & Events

Gospel Carols Still Going Strong


Freedom Songs

Songs of Freedom, Social Justice, Civil Rights and Hope


Freedom Songs

FREEDOM SONGS


Freedom Songs

My Country Tis of Thee. Sweet Land of Liberty, of Thee We Sing…?


UMOJA Shorts

UMOJA Shorts — Civil Rights 2023


Community Profile & Events

Urban League of Greater Madison Young Professionals 10th Anniversary:


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