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The Black History Month 2024 theme, “African Americans and the Arts,” explores the key influence African Americans have had in the fields of « visual and performing arts, literature, fashion, folklore, language, film, music, architecture, culinary and other forms of cultural expression. »
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day, in the United States, is a holiday (third Monday in January) honouring the achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr. A Baptist minister who advocated the use of nonviolent means to end racial segregation, he first came to national prominence during a bus boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
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Yolanda Renee King, the only grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, reflects on her family’s legacy in her first children’s book, « We Dream a World. » Yolanda Renee never got the chance to meet her grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated in 1968. However, she is one of the countless activists inspired by his actions.
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Located in the oldest public park in the US, The Embrace is a 20-foot-tall monument in Boston by artist Hank Willis Thomas, two sets of bronze arms forever locked in a hug, representing Coretta Scott King and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., captured during an intimate moment in 1964 when Dr. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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