Studio Museum in Harlem Director Thelma Golden Wins $250,000 Prize

Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of New York’s Studio Museum in Harlem, has won the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, which comes with $250,000 and recognizes a person who has made a significant contribution to the arts.

Golden has led the Studio Museum since 2005 and has in that time vastly expanded the institution. It is only continuing to physically grow and is currently in the process of moving into a new home on West 125th Street.

Prior to joining the Studio Museum, she had worked as a curator at the Whitney Museum, where she organized shows such as the 1993 Biennial and 1994’s “Black Male,” an ambitious survey of attitudes toward Blackness and masculinity in contemporary art that continues to influence many today.

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In a statement, Golden said, “As a curator and museum director who has been privileged to work for and on behalf of artists for my entire career, I am humbled to receive this prize that was created by an artist and has been given to so many creative leaders I greatly admire. Working in service of artists in general, and very specifically Black artists, has allowed me to engage broadly in the world. I gratefully accept the Gish Prize and wholly acknowledge what an honor it has been to be able to provide space, alongside the many institutional colleagues, Board members, and supporters who are equally committed to advancing the work these artists do.”

Among the prize’s past winners are filmmakers Spike Lee and Ava DuVernay, architect Maya Lin, choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones, and writer Chinua Achebe.

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Magic Johnson Revives Historic Atlanta Life; Fani Willis Secures More Guilty Pleas; Tyler Perry Builds Home For Grandmother: ADW Top 5 Stories Of The Week

Magic Johnson Revives Historic Atlanta Life, Credits Killer Mike

Magic Johnson became aware of the storied legacy of Alonzo Herndon and Atlanta Life through rapper Killer Mike. 

“Killer Mike was the one who was doing an interview and he really brought to light this company and the history of Mr. Herndon,” Johnson told ADW during an exclusive Q&A session in Buckhead. “So I had to look this guy up and look this company up. So big ups to Killer Mike for educating myself and I’m sure a lot of other people.”

Johnson would research the history of Herndon and Atlanta Life and decided to continue its legacy. Johnson’s EquiTrust Life Insurance Company, a life insurance and annuities carrier with $26 billion of total assets, reached an agreement to broaden its offerings and reach.

Atlanta Life now stands as the nation’s lone remaining Black-founded and owned insurance company. 

Initially founded by Herndon, a former slave, in 1905, Atlanta Life became a staple in the community and allowed Herndon to become one of America’s first Black millionaires. In 1920, Herndon purchased and developed a building on Auburn Ave as it served as headquarters for the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. Read more

Fani Willis Secures More Guilty Pleas In Trump Indictment 

Another one of Donald Trump’s co-defendant’s has taken a plea deal in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. 

Today, former Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro pleaded guilty to a felony of filing false documents. Chesebro’s plan was to file the false documents in order to help Trump’s campaign put forth unauthorized slates of GOP electors in Georgia and six other states.

Chesebro and other Trump affiliates wanted then-Vice President Mike Pence to use false GOP electors to justify delaying Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory, or throw out Biden’s lawful electors. 

Chesebro has agreed to testify against Trump and other co-defendants.

The deal comes one day after Fani Willis and her team of prosecutors offered a plea deal to Trump’s former attorney Sidney Powell. Read more

Tyler Perry Builds Home For Grandmother

Tyler Perry will step up to help a Black grandmother who has faced a legal battle for her land. Josephine Wright’s family has owned a plot of land in Hilton Head, South Carolina since the Civil War. 

However, a development company called Bailey Point Investment has attempted to take Wright’s land through legal means after she refused to sell. The company got approval from town officials to develop 29 acres of land behind Wright’s home. Once Wright turned down the offer to sell, the company filed a lawsuit to seize control of the property.

Bailey Point claims that Wright’s porch sits on property they brought, although their property is across the street from Wright’s home. 

But Perry has decided to step up and help Wright by building her a new five-bedroom home for her and her grandchildren to live in. Construction will begin once permits are squared away.

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The Georgia Department of Community Affairs has opened applications for the housing voucher program and will continue to accept them until midnight Oct. 20 or 11:59 p.m. to be precise.

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Will Packer Honored At NBAF Gala

Will Packer was recently honored by the National Black Arts Festival with the “Trailblazer In The Arts Award.”

The fundraising “Gala- Mahogany: A Celebration of Black Arts,” was a night of celebrating Black artistic excellence. It also featured dinner curated by celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson. 

During his acceptance speech, Packer shared his story of moving to Atlanta and following his dreams.

“I moved to Atlanta straight out of FAMU,” Packer said. “My brother Rob Hardy and I had a U-haul truck. We had $257 and we had a dream and Atlanta was the place where our dream came to thrive. Atlanta is the place where your dreams can come true. And I will say that if I’m in this room, I will say that if I’m in another room in this country. I’ll say it in any room around the world because it’s the truth. And Atlanta has been a foundation for me. It allows me to thrive in the way that I am thriving in my career.” Read more

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Jann Wenner exits Rock Hall after saying Black artists aren’t ‘articulate’

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Co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine Jann Wenner has been removed from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame foundation board after saying Black artists weren’t “articulate” enough to be included in his book.

On Sunday (September 17), the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation confirmed Wenner’s exit.

“Jann Wenner has been removed from the board of directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,” a representative told CNN.

Wenner’s removal came after he spoke to the New York Times about his upcoming book “The Masters”, which included interviews with John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, and others.

When speaking to the Times, Wenner explained why he didn’t include interviews with women and Black artists in his book.

“The people had to meet a couple criteria, but it was just kind of my personal interest and love of them,” Wenner said, adding “Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.”

“Stevie Wonder, genius, right?” he continued. “I suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level.”

“For public relations sake, maybe I should have gone and found one Black and one woman artist to include here that didn’t measure up to that same historical standard, just to avert this kind of criticism,” Wenner told the Times. “Maybe I’m old-fashioned and I don’t give a (expletive) or whatever. I wish in retrospect I could have interviewed Marvin Gaye. Maybe he’d have been the guy. Maybe Otis Redding, had he lived, would have been the guy.”

After receiving widespread backlash for his comments, Wenner issued an apology on Saturday (September 16).

“In my interview with The New York Times I made comments that diminished the contributions, genius, and impact of Black and women artists and I apologize wholeheartedly for those remarks,” Wenner said.

“‘The Masters’ is a collection of interviews I’ve done over the years that seemed to me to best represent an idea of rock ‘n’ roll’s impact on my world; they were not meant to represent the whole of music and its diverse and important originators but to reflect the high points of my career and interviews I felt illustrated the breadth and experience in that career,” he said. “They don’t reflect my appreciation and admiration for myriad totemic, world-changing artists whose music and ideas I revere and will celebrate and promote as long as I live. I totally understand the inflammatory nature of badly chosen words and deeply apologize and accept the consequences.”

Wenner founded Rolling Stone magazine in 1967 with music critic Ralph J. Gleason. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and co-founded the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation.

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Heightened impact of racism

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial) Discrimination (‘’ICERD” or “Convention”) was signed by the United States in 1966 . President Lyndon Johnson’s administration noted at the time that the United States “has not always measured up to its constitutional heritage of equality for all but was on the march towards compliance”. 

Twenty eight years later, the US finally ratified the convention and first reported on its progress in implementing it to the UN Committee on the elimination of racial discrimination. 

In its 2000 report, the US stated that “racial discrimination is less pervasive than it was thirty years ago”. But admitted it continued due to “subtle forms of discrimination” that persist in American society. 

The forms of discrimination reported to the United Nations by the US included “inadequate enforcement of existing anti-discrimination laws; “ineffective use and discrimination of data;” economic disadvantage experienced by minority groups; “persistent discrimination in employment and labour relations”; “segregation and discrimination in housing” leading to diminished educational opportunities for minorities, lack of equal access to capital, credit markets and technology; discrimination in the criminal legal system,; lack of adequate access to health insurance and health care; and discrimination against immigrants, among other harmful effects. 

The United States also noted the heightened impact of racism on women and children. All these clearly show that the US leadership does not systematically comply with the principles of racial equality. Numerous violations of the rights of African Americans have been recorded in the US. 

A group of independent UN, rights experts in 2020 said following the killing of George Floyd and others that; “exactly 99 years after the massacre in Tulsa, involving the killings of people of African descent and the massive loss of life, destruction of property and loss of wealth on ‘Black Wall Street’, African Americans continue to experience racial terror in state-sponsored and privately organised violence.

The UN report on human rights violations in the US in 2022 said; “the year 2022 witnessed a landmark setback for the US Human Rights. In the United States, a country labelling itself a ‘human rights defender’, ‘’chronic diseases” such as money politics, racial discrimination, gun and police violence, and wealth polarization are rampant. 

“Human rights legislation and justice have seen an extreme retrogression, further undermining the basic rights and freedoms of the American people.’’ 

It is on this ground that informed observers say that the US refusal to support the UN resolution on the fight against the glorification of Nazism and racial discrimination indicates that Washington actually follow the policy of racism .

 While campaigning for his first term to be elected US president, Joe Biden, speaking in Washington in honour of Martin Luther King Jr. called racism in America as ‘’institutional white man’s problem’’ and said that ‘’white Americans need to acknowledge and admit the fact that systemic racism still exists and must be rooted out.’’ Biden then led his democratic challengers for the presidential nomination in almost all-polls, largely because of the support of black voters.  

Now as Biden readies for 2024 presidential run, the leadership of the American Democratic Party and Biden himself again have begun speculating on the issue of racial inequality in the presidential race. 

He has ordered the American federal government to do more to address racial inequality as the challenges and complexities of systemic racism are again drawing the public’s attention. Biden wrote in the order, saying, “By advancing equality, the federal government can support and empower all Americans, including the many communities in America that have been underserved, discriminated against, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality .  

Many believe it is the spirit of racism that propel Washington to always pursue a neo-colonial policy towards African countries .  

The US as a neo-colonial power influences African nations by its economic authority exercised through its control or preeminent influence on such agencies as the International Monetary Fund [IMF] and the World Bank . 

Back in 2019 as presidential hopeful, Biden made appealing to black voters central to his candidacy and vowed to make maximizing black and Latino turnout an ‘’overwhelming focus of his effort. ’

’To accentuate his appeal to black voters, Biden said that he will advertise in black publications and engage with cultural institutions like the black church, black fraternities and sororities, and historically black colleges.But Biden’s promises to defend the interests of Africans, Indians Latin Americans and others are not being fulfilled in reality. 

That according to observers of American politics will not prevent the democrats, as the next election approaches, from again using the issue of racial inequality to attract votes by making false promises.

Seidi writes from ilorin, Kwara state.