Good morning POU Family! It's Thursday and this week's theme is highlighting African-American Painters. Today, we are going to highlight the painter David Huffman. David Huffman (born 1963) is an American painter and installation artist. He is known for works that combine science fiction aesthetics with a critical focus on the political exploration of … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: African-American Painters
Thursday Open Thread
Thursday Open Thread: Little Rock Nine
Good Morning POU! It’s Thursday, P.O.U. Family! This week’s open threads are dedicated to the individuals within the Little Rock Nine. Gloria Cecelia Ray Karlmark (born September 26, 1942) was one of the Little Rock Nine. She was 15 when she attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School. In 1965, she graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1965 with a … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Little Rock Nine
Thursday Open Thread: Notable Black Cartoonists
Ray Billingsley is an American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Curtis, which is distributed by King Features Syndicate and printed in more than 250 newspapers nationwide. Billingsley was born in Wake Forest, North Carolina in 1957, and raised there in his earliest years. Later, his family moved to Harlem, in New York City. … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Notable Black Cartoonists
Thursday Open Thread: African-American Innovators
Andrew Jackson Beard (1849–1921) was an African American inventor. He invented the first automatic railroad car coupler in 1897 and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2006 for this achievement. … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: African-American Innovators
Thursday Open Thread: African-American Screenwriters
Diandrea "Dee" Rees[(born February 7, 1977) is an American screenwriter and director.[ She is known for her feature films Pariah (2011), Bessie (2015), and Mudbound (2017). The latter was adapted from the 2008 novel by the same name by Hillary Jordan and earned Rees an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Rees has also written and directed episodes for … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: African-American Screenwriters