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08/12/2023

Rest in Eternal Peace, Pablo Guzman. Thank you, Fern, for your beautiful profile and amazing reminiscences!

By Fern Gillespie Before podcasts were making everybody and their third cousin a radio talk show host, Pablo Guzman pioneered commercial Black talk radio in New York City. Black public affairs talk shows have been on the radio for decades. However, in 1981, New York black radio executives saw the ne...

26/10/2023

Amazing art !

19/07/2023

Incredible !

Born in 1915, poet and writer Margaret Walker used her first novel, “Jubilee”, to craft a semi-fictional account about a biracial enslaved woman born during the American Civil War. The book took thirty years to write. Based in Georgia and Alabama, it spanned the periods of American slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Literature professor Joyce Ann Joyce has cited Jubilee as “the first truly historical black American novel.” Critical studies of the book emphasize Jubilee as the prototype for novels that present black history from a black perspective.

Walker was born into a family of storytellers, musicians, ministers, and teachers. She first heard about slavery through bedtime stories that her maternal grandmother would tell her. As she grew older, she pushed her grandmother for more details with the intent of writing stories based on what she heard. Later, she conducted extensive research on every facet of the black experience regarding the Civil War. She stated, “most of my life I have been involved with writing this story about my great-grandmother, and even if Jubilee were never considered an artistic or commercial success, I would still be happy to just finish it.”

📸 Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

28/02/2023

Honored to be included in 'The Sidebar,' an NABJ-NYC podcast with my husband, Byron Lewis, about storytelling careers -

‎Society & Culture · 2023

15/11/2022

Interview with author, and scholar Patricia Banks about Black art and African American museums. https://www.publicbooks.org/patricia-banks-on-supporting-african-american-museums/ museums -

Studies of museum patronage mostly focus on social class. That's not the whole story.

17/08/2022

I'm honored to be included in CUNY TV's 'Shades of US ' Best of Season 4! Thank you Darrell Brown!

22/07/2022

Check out Student-curated films in Auntyland's summer festival!

19/07/2022

Donate children’s books!

We give and read books to kids in need ages 5-18. If you have new or gently used kids or young adult books, consider donating them to our organization. Visit our website to contact us.
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19/06/2022

Auntyland Film Festival Awards Announced!

June 14, 2022 -- Top 5 Jury Winners: A Ring: A Short Film, Weep Not, City Trees, Basurero, and Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color. Top 3 Audience Awards: Star Boy, Carnival Queens, and United We Heal.

07/05/2022

Honoring the NAACP headquarters in NYC's Village!

In-person event, registration required Village Preservation will unveil a historic plaque on Tuesday, May 10 at 6:00pm to honor 70 Fifth Avenue, which served as the headquarters of the NAACP, the ACLU…