Art Gallery Roundup: Exhibitions To See In Louisville In June

A gallery roundup of art shows to see in Louisville this month. Note: This list is a selection of current exhibitions.

“ROBERT MORGAN: MYTHS AND STORIES”
Through December
Solo show by Lexington artist Robert Morgan.

“FRAGILE FIGURES: BEINGS AND TIME”
Through December
A group exhibition of portraits.

KOREA FIBER ART 2023 LOUISVILLE
Through Aug. 27
Group exhibition with artists from around the world using fiber art to explore life’s milestones. Featured in multiple locations around Louisville.
21c Louisville
700 W. Main St.
Hours: Mondays-Sundays, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
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“THREE BROTHERS”
Through June 24
Featuring Ed White, Lavon Van Williams Jr. and Willie Rascoe.

“PAINTINGS ON METAL
June 30-Aug. 18
New art by Russel May. The opening reception is Friday, June 30 at 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery
137 E. Main St., New Albany, Indiana
Hours: Thursdays-Fridays, noon-5 p.m.; Saturdays, 1-3 p.m.
bourne-schweitzergallery.com

“THE HIDEOUT”
Through June 18
Recent paintings by Dayton, Ohio artist Edmund Merricle.
Capacity Contemporary Exchange
641 W. Main St.
Hours: Wednesdays-Thursdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fridays, 12-8 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 12-4 p.m.
capacitycontemporary.com

“IMAGINE”
Through June
Group show by 10 local artists on the theme of imagination.
Chestnuts and Pearls
157 E. Main St., New Albany
Hours: Thursdays-Fridays, 12-4 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sundays, 12-4 p.m.
chestnutsandpearls.com

“TRAFFIC”
Through June 3
Art by Guinever Smith.

“(BLUE) SKY/(GREEN) EARTH”
Through June 3
Paintings by Emily Church.

Galerie Hertz
1253 S. Preston St.
Hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, 12-5 p.m.; most Sundays, 12-4 p.m.
galeriehertz.com

“ANIMAL ATTRACTION”
Through June 3
Work featuring animals in all media.

KIM MAHLBACHER
June 6-July 15
Solo show by fiber artist Kim Mahlbacker.

Gallery 104
Arts Association of Oldham County
104 E. Main St., La Grange
Hours: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
aaooc.org

“NOT EXACTLY EQUESTRIAN ART”
Through June 25
Group show by the Garner family of artists.
garner narrative contemporary fine art
642 E. Market St.
Hours: Wednesdays-Sundays, 1-6 p.m.
garnernarrative.com

“CELEBRATING THE BLACK EXPERIENCE”
Through June 19
Group show of 22 regional African American artists.
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage
1701 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd.
Hours: Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
kcaah.org

DERBY SHOW
Through June
Group show featuring work by Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, Greta Mattingly and David O. Schuster.
Kentucky Fine Art Gallery
2400-C Lime Kiln Lane
Hours: Tuesdays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
kentuckyfineartgallery.com

“HIGGINS | HOWER: NOTHING IN COMMON”
Through June 3
Featuring mixed media works by Meg Higgins and photographs by Bob Hower of the Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project. The artist talk is Saturday, May 13 at 2 p.m.
Kleinhelter Gallery
701 E. 8th St., New Albany, Indiana
Hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
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“SHAPESHIFTERS”
Through Aug. 6
New works of life-sized felted wool sculptures by Japanese American artist Masko Miki.
KMAC Museum
715 W. Main St.
Hours: Wednesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
kmacmuseum.org

KOREA FIBER ART 2023 LOUISVILLE
Through June 30
Group exhibition with artists from around the world using fiber art to explore life’s milestones. Featured in multiple locations around Louisville.
Louisville Metro Hall
527 W. Jefferson St.

Hours: Mondays-Fridays, 7 a.m.-7 p.m.
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“EARTH MIRROR”
June 1-Aug. 15
Paintings by Ewa Perz. The opening reception is Friday, June 2 from 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Lowber Pilates and Gallery
1734 Bonnycastle Ave.
Hours: Mondays-Thursdays, 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m.; Fridays, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
lowberpilates.com

“BEYOND LIKENESS”
Through June 10
Latest paintings by Gaela Erwin reflecting on the pandemic and quarantine.

Moremen Gallery

710 W. Main St., Suite 201
Hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
moremengallery.com

“WE DON’T WITHER”
Through Dec. 18
Works by seven Louisville-area women/femme artists.

Muhammad Ali Center
144 N. 6th St.
Hours: Wednesdays-Sundays, 12-5 p.m.
alicenter.org

“SECOND NATURE”
Through May 28
Works by Pamela Couch, Corie Neumayer and Matthew Choe. The gallery talk is on Sunday, June 11 at 2 p.m.

PYRO Gallery
1006 E. Washington St.
Hours: Fridays-Saturdays, noon-6 p.m.; Sundays 1-4 p.m.
pyrogallery.com

“ROUNDING THE CIRCLE: THE MARY AND AL SHANDS COLLECTION”
Through Aug. 6
Exhibition of 116 works from the late local philanthropists Mary and Al Shands.

“LOUISVILLE’S BLACK AVANT-GARDE: ROBERT L. DOUGLAS”
Through Oct. 1
Show of work by the late artist, historian and community leader.

“KENTUCKY WOMEN: ALMA WALLACE LESCH”
Through Oct. 29
The next exhibition in the Speed’s continuing” Kentucky Women” series is on textile artist Alma Wallace Lesch.
Speed Art Museum
2035 S. Third St.
Hours: Fridays, 1-8 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
speedmuseum.org

“LUMINOUS”
Through June 10
Featuring new still lifes by Liz Price.
WheelHouse Art
2650 Frankfort Ave.
Hours: Tuesdays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
wheelhouse.art

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Idris Elba to Produce Music-Industry Racism Doc ‘Paid in Full: The Battle for Payback’

Luther and Hobbs & Shaw star Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures and wife Sabrina Elba’s Pink Towel have unveiled plans for Paid in Full: The Battle for Payback, a documentary about the music industry exploiting Black artists, for the BBC and CBC networks.

The three-parter, which will also explore reparations for Black artists, is produced by Zinc Media’s production label Supercollider in association with Canadian indie producer Catalyst.

“This is a story that touches all of us. It’s about the people who created the soundtracks of our lives in popular music and the pain of their exploitation. It’s also about bringing the music industry to account for the injustice inflicted on generations of musical talents who have been deprived of their rightful rewards both financially and in terms of status and respect. At the heart of it is the need to make amends — granting acknowledgement and paying back what is due,” Green Door CEO Idris Elba said in a statement Monday.

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Paid in Full, with David Upshal on board as the showrunner, will be funded in part by Media Musketeers Studios and Abacus Media Rights, which is distributing the series internationally.

Despite the pop music industry owing much to Black artists, the Elbas’ documentary will center on the historic injustice they faced being denied their fair share profits and recognition after Black creatives drove the culture of popular music, from jazz and rock and roll to soul and rap, with their talents.

As Paid in Full focuses on the current fight for industry change, the documentary will feature contributions from author, rapper and filmmaker MK Asante Jr, in addition to Lawrence Lartey of Ravensbourne University London, who has worked with Barack Obama’s Obama Foundation on its My Brother’s Keeper initiative. Lartey also worked with Idris Elba and Asante on the U.K. documentary How Hip Hop Changed the World.

“Far from being a straight music documentary, this series will explore the music industry within a racial context and reflect the history of exploitation within the industry. It will also major in on conversations of structural racism and those who have worked so hard to expose them,” Tanya Shaw, managing director of Zinc Television, added in a statement.

“We look forward to sharing this important series with audiences in Canada, offering a necessary and in-depth exploration of the structural racism inherent in the music industry and its impact over the decades,” added Jennifer Dettman, executive director of unscripted content at the CBC.

Paid in Full was greenlit for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer and for the CBC and CBC Gem streaming platform in Canada. The executive producer credits are shared by Greg Sanderson for Supercollider, Idris Elba for Green Door Pictures, Sabrina Elba for Pink Towel and Julie Bristow for Catalyst.

Idris Elba’s Green Door has scripted TCV credits that include Hijack for Apple TV+; the Sky One comedy In the Long Run, created by and featuring Elba; and the Netflix comedy Turn Up Charlie, a co-production with Brown Eyed Boy that was co-created by and stars Elba.

Movie credits include Concrete Cowboy, a collaboration with Neighborhood Film Co., Tucker Tooley Entertainment and Lee Daniels Entertainment for Netflix.

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Idris and Sabrina Elba, Supercollider Team on CBC, BBC Music Industry Injustice Documentary Series (EXCLUSIVE)

Zinc Media label Supercollider has partnered with Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures and Sabrina Elba’s Pink Towel on documentary series “Paid in Full: The Battle for Payback” (working title) for public broadcasters CBC and BBC.

The series (3 x 60′), produced in association with Catalyst, examines the exploitation of Black artists by the music industry and explores what it would look like for Black artists to receive reparations. It documents the extent of the historic injustice suffered by the music industry’s Black artists, including the disparity of profits received by them, despite having created the records that have driven the fabric and culture of popular music. The series will also look at racial inequality in the music industry both today and in the past.

The series features contributions from author and filmmaker MK Asante Jr (“Buck,” “It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop,” “The Black Candle”) and Lawrence Lartey, director of innovation, industry and enterprise at Ravensbourne University London who has worked with President Obama’s foundation on their My Brother’s Keeper initiative.

The series is commissioned by CBC and the BBC, and funded and co-produced by a partnership between Abacus Media Rights (AMR) and Media Musketeers Studios, with AMR distributing internationally.

Tanya Shaw, managing director, Zinc Television, said: “Far from being a straight music documentary, this series will explore the music industry within a racial context and reflect the history of exploitation within the industry. It will also major in on conversations of structural racism and those who have worked so hard to expose them.”

Idris Elba, CEO, Green Door, added: “This is a story that touches all of us. It’s about the people who created the soundtracks of our lives in popular music and the pain of their exploitation. It’s also about bringing the music industry to account for the injustice inflicted on generations of musical talents who have been deprived of their rightful rewards both financially and in terms of status and respect. At the heart of it is the need to make amends – granting acknowledgement and paying back what is due.”

Jonathan Ford, managing director, Abacus Media Rights, said: “We were extremely keen to be part of this incredible production, which will bring much-needed focus to a topic that requires attention from the industry and the public. We’re certain the excellent teams at Supercollider, Green Door and Catalyst will combine to do the subject justice.”

Sebastien Janin, managing partner, Media Musketeers Studios, said: “The subject matter is hugely important and deserves to be in the spotlight. Working with such a talented production and distribution team will ensure the series reaches the widest possible audience.”

Jennifer Dettman, executive director, unscripted content, CBC, said: “We look forward to sharing this important series with audiences in Canada, offering a necessary and in-depth exploration of the structural racism inherent in the music industry and its impact over the decades.”

“Paid in Full: The Battle for Payback” was commissioned for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer by Jonathan Rothery, head of pop music, TV and Rachel Davies is the commissioning editor, and was commissioned for CBC and CBC Gem by Sally Catto, general manager, entertainment, factual and sports, and by Jennifer Dettman, executive director, unscripted content. Michelle McCree is executive in charge of production, CBC Docs. It is executive produced by Greg Sanderson for Supercollider, Idris Elba for Green Door Pictures, Sabrina Elba for Pink Towel and Julie Bristow for Catalyst. The showrunner is David Upshal.

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Zinc Media gains after unveiling partnership with Idris Elba’s…

Zinc Media Group PLC (AIM:ZIN) shares gained 7% in morning trade after unveiling a partnership with actor Idris Elba’s production company for a multi-million-pound international co-production series, commissioned by the BBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

The series, with a working title of ‘PAID IN FULL: The Battle for Payback’, aims to shed light on the systemic exploitation of black artists by the music industry. It delves into the historic injustice faced by black artists, who have created the foundation and culture of popular music, yet have received disproportionate profits. The show will explore the concept of sonic reparations for black artists.

Elba, as CEO of Green Door Pictures, described the series as a story that resonates with everyone. He emphasized the importance of acknowledging and rectifying the exploitation faced by the musicians who have provided the soundtrack to people’s lives.

In a statement, Mark Browning, chief executive officer of Zinc Media, expressed pride in securing this significant contract, emphasizing the company’s commitment to addressing real-world issues, including the challenges faced by black artists, and the belief that programmes such as this make a positive impact on society. 

Browning also noted: “It is another material contract that helps underpin our full year revenue projections.”

In reaction to the news, by 9.40am, Zinc Media shares had gained 7.1% at 112.50p.

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FTSE 100 Live: Government sells £1.26bn in NatWest stock; Meta fined

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Companies pick office locations for most ‘pain-free’ commute

Firms seeking new large London offices in the City are taking space that is less than a four minute walk from a tube or train station, aiming to make post-pandemic commutes as ‘pain-free as possible’, research published on Monday shows.

Property consultancy Savills looked at office lettings of 100,000 square feet and above in the City of London in the last three years. It found that the average distance between an office and nearest station is a three and three quarter minute walk. Among the deals featured was law firm Linklaters signing for a new HQ at 20 Ropemaker.

Firms seeking new large London offices in the City are taking space that is less than a four minute walk from a tube or train station, aiming to make post-pandemic commutes as ‘pain-free as possible’, research published on Monday shows.

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NatWest higher after £1.3bn stake sale, FTSE 100 makes headway

A £1.3 billion sale of NatWest shares today left the taxpayer stake below 40% as the government continues efforts to be rid of its exposure by 2026.

State ownership peaked at 84% during the financial crisis 15 years ago but is now at 38.6% after the Treasury sold shares back to the bank at a price of 268.4p on Friday.

The stock had been above 300p as recently as mid-February but valuations across the sector have been hit by the turmoil involving Credit Suisse and Silicon Valley Bank.

NatWest today lifted 2.3p to 270.7p, still 15% higher than a year ago amid recent strong trading under the leadership of chief executive Alison Rose.

The weekend move comes just over a month after the Treasury reiterated its intention to exit its shareholding by 2025/26, including through an ongoing trading plan.

Hargreaves Lansdown analyst Sophie Lund-Yates said: “Removing government stabilisers is a clear marker of the bank entering a new chapter.”

Alongside NatWest, Asia-focused pair Standard Chartered and Burberry rose after President Joe Biden suggested an imminent thawing of relations between the US and China. Their shares lifted 14.4p to 648.4p and 82p to 2372p respectively.

Progress in the London market was otherwise held back by caution over US debt ceiling negotiations, leaving the FTSE 100 index a modest 19.47 points higher at 7776.34.

Richard Hunter, head of markets at Interactive Investor, said: “While the likelihood of what would be a financially catastrophic default is considered low, investors remain on edge and will continue to be so the longer the talks progress.”

Other risers included BT Group, which recovered 3.1p to 148.05p after annual results triggered a sharp sell off for shares last Thursday.

The FTSE 250 index was 10.61 points higher at 19,299.71, with the newly-listed GKN automotive business Dowlais the best performing stock with a rise of 4% or 5.8p to 144.8p.

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Meta to face £1 billion EU fine

Meta is to be fined a record-busting £1 billion by the European Union over the transfer of user data to the US, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal.

The EU’s privacy regulators, including Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), are set to impose the huge fine amid concerns the transfers expose EU citizens to weaker data privacy regulation in the US and adds futher pressure on the US government to strike a deal with the bloc over the management of personal data.

Last year, Facebook threatened to suspend its services in Europe if it was prohibited from moving data to the US. The previous record fine imposed by EU regulators over privacy standards was handed to Amazon last year and stood at €746m (£647m).

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Dechra profit warning puts takeover at risk

Pet medicine and vaccine maker Dechra put out a second profit warning in three months today, putting a potential buyout at risk, after a number of US wholesalers cut back on stocking its products.

The firm, which acquired Ivermectin maker Med-Pharmex last year, warned “widely reported destocking” in the US was hitting its profits in February, and now said this is lasting longer than expected.

It now expects profit of £186 million for the year — £2 million less than it said in February.

Dechra is in talks with private equity firm EQT over a 4,070p-per-share takeover. But with shares down 7.1% to 3,392p, markets believe EQT may not submit a firm bid by next week’s deadline.

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City Comment

In the public mind the traders jailed for rigging Libor are crooks and cheats. Those jailings were seen as a rare example of finance titans getting what they deserved for their role in the 2008 financial crash.

In the City, the feeling was rather different. The view was that these guys were probably just doing what they were told, and ending up in prison for that is harsh.

A new book* by the BBC’s Andy Verity, Rigged, rather makes it clear that this is the scandal that never was.

Libor was an obscure financial instrument before the crash. It is merely the price at which banks lend money to each other overnight to square off their liabilities. A matter of routine rather than skulduggery.

Post the crash, the authorities wanted Libor to be lower, to show that the banks had faith in each other.

The traders complied. So even if this manipulation affected the cost of your mortgage (it’s a hundred miles removed in truth), all it did was to send that cost down, not up. They did you a favour.

The book has strong evidence that central banks not only knew about this rigging, they encouraged it.

That’s both an important revelation and a statement of the obvious. Of course they knew.

In all, 37 traders and brokers were prosecuted by the US Justice Department and the UK’s Serious Fraud Office. Nineteen were convicted and nine jailed.

Some of those convictions have already been over-turned. It seems likely, and just, that most of the rest of them will be in time.

The desire to find the villains of the banking crash is understandable. These are not those guys. They never were.

*Rigged: The Incredible True Story of the Whistleblowers Jailed After Exposing the Rotten Heart of the Financial System.

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William Hill owner sells Latvian arm

William Hill owner 888 will sell its Latvian arm for £24.6 million, as it aims to cut down its debts.

Paf, owned by the government of Finnish region the Åland Islands, will buy the division which made £2.5 million in profit last year .

888 executive chair Lord Mendehlson said the Baltics were not a “core or growth market where we prioritise our investments”.

The betting giant said it would sell assets last month, having racked up almost £2 billion in debt to buy William Hill last year.

888 has been in the headlines for the wrong reasons this year. CEO Itai Pazner quit in January when the firm launched a probe into money-laundering checks for Middle Eastern high-rollers. William Hill then paid the biggest fine in UK gambling history, £19.2 million, in March for “alarming” failings in its safer gambling checks.

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Zinc Media boosted by Idris Elba partnership

Shares in Zinc Media were boosted 8% to 114p today after the TV production group unveiled a new partnership with Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures and wife Sabrina Elba’s Pink Towel to make documentary ‘Paid in full: The Battle for Payback.’

The multi-million-pound production, commissioned by the BBC and Canadian state broadcaster CBC, explores the extent of the historic injustice suffered by the music industry’s black artists, including the disparity of profits received by them, despite having created the records that have driven the fabric and culture of popular music.

Idris Elba said “This is a story that touches all of us. It’s about bringing the music industry to account for the injustice inflicted on generations of musical talents who have been deprived of their rightful rewards.”

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Asia stocks lead FTSE 100, NatWest lifted by stake sale

The FTSE 100 index stands 18.33 points higher at 7775.20 as caution over US debt ceiling negotiations continues to hold back markets.

Richard Hunter, head of markets at Interactive Investor, said: “While the likelihood of what would be a financially catastrophic default is considered low, investors remain on edge and will continue to be so the longer the talks progress.”

Asia-focused stocks fared well in London after remarks from President Joe Biden over the weekend suggested an imminent thawing of relations between the US and China.

Standard Chartered shares rose 2% or 12.2p to 646.2p and Burberry rallied 38p to 2328p.

NatWest featured on the risers board, improving 1.9p to 270.3p after it emerged that the Government had reduced its stake below 40%.

The FTSE 250 index was 5.53 points higher at 19,294.63, led by a 5% gain for Auction Technology Group as sentiment continues to improve following last week’s half-year results. The shares lifted 39p to 768p.

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Snapshot as London markets open

A few minutes into today’s trading session in London, here’s a look at the key market data.

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Begbies Traynor beats expectations as insolvencies soar

A growing number of insolvencies helped liquidator and administrator Begbies Traynor beat expectations for the year as profits grew to £20.7 million.

The business said liquidations are ahead of pre-pandemic levels, while administrations, which are usually for bigger companies, are not at that level yet but are up significantly from the lows of 2021.

Ric Traynor, executive chair of Begbies Traynor, said he saw further growth in 2023 as insolvencies continue to rise.

“We have started the new year confident in our outlook for a further year of growth. Our insolvency team will benefit from their recent insolvency appointments, together with anticipated further growth in the insolvency market.”

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Reclaiming our Past CA Pioneers of African Descent – 23rd Anniversary of Folsom Juneteenth

In 2000, Joe Louis Moore’s Juneteenth events were chosen by the National Park Service to be included in their National Underground Railroad Project, one of only two projects in California to be selected for that honor. Soon come the rest of the story…

OBITUARY – JOE LOUIS MOORE – 1946-2015

Joe Louis Moore was born to Viola Vivian Washington Moore and Raymond Moore on November 15, 1946 in Fontana, California, the ninth of ten children. He grew up in Fontana and San Bernardino, California where he graduated from high school. After a stint in the Air Force, he attended the New York Institute of photography where he received a Certificate in Industrial Photography.

Upon completing his studies in New York, he attended Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California where he specialized in color photography and printing. Joe moved to Chicago where he worked for Johnson Publications as a staff photographer for Ebony and Jet magazines.

In 1970, Joe and his wife, Shirley moved to the Bay Area where in 1991 he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in the Humanities from The New College of San Francisco. In 1994, he received a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State University where he specialized in African American Arts and produced the groundbreaking art exhibit “Black Power, Black Art: The Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.”

He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees while working at the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a scientific and technical photographer until his retirement, after 27 years, in 1997.

After three decades in the Bay Area, Joe and Shirley moved to Sacramento in 1997. That same year he founded the “Reclaiming the Past: African Americans Along the American River” project.

He also served as the President of the Sacramento African American Historical and Cultural Society from 1997-2005.

From 1998-2005, he organized and directed the Juneteenth Celebrations at Negro Bar State Park in Folsom, California that focused on the history of nineteenth century African Americans in California using historical re-enactments, arts, storytelling, and exhibitions.

In 2000 Joe Louis Moore’s Juneteenth events were chosen by the National Park Service to be included in their National Underground Railroad Project, one of only two projects in California to be selected for that honor.

Joe participated as a guest speaker and served on numerous arts/humanities conferences, committees, boards, and panels including: the National Endowment for Humanities Landmark Grant Teacher Education on the Gold Rush (2014); Del Paso Boulevard Art Selection Committee for the Sacramento Arts Commission (2006-2007); “Reclaiming the Past,” California State University, Sacramento, (2003); Nevada State Council on the Humanities (1999); “Art and City Planning,” Sacramento Chamber of Commerce (1999); “Art and the Black Power Movement,” UC, Davis (1998); Oakland Neighborhood Arts Commission (1995-1996); and “Art and Technology,” San Francisco Art Institute (1994).

In 2001, Joe Louis Moore received a Library Services and Technology Act grant to develop and direct the Underground Railroad Digital Archive, an online archive of primary sources about slavery in California that is now part of the special collections of the library at California State University, Sacramento.

In 2003, he produced a symposium – “From Slavery to Freedom: Preserving Nineteenth Century Documents for the Twenty-First Century” at California State University, Sacramento.

He also developed and curated several photographic exhibitions including “This Light, This Air: Dorothea Lange’s FSA Photographs of the Central Valley” (2008-2009); “The Legacy of the Panthers,” photo exhibition and catalogue (1997); and “Black Power, Black Art: The Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.” His publications include articles and photo essays in California History Magazine, several National Park Service publications, and Black World Magazine.

In 2004, Joe Louis Moore received Sacramento County Historical Society’s Education Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to regional and local history. In 2010 he developed and served as director of the Black Overland Trails Wagon Project.

With the support of an array of community organizations, the State Parks Foundation, the Center for California Studies, and the Sacramento History Center, he assembled a team that reconstructed a replica of an overland wagon based on the covered wagons constructed by nineteenth-century master wagon builder and former slave Hiram Young of Independence, Missouri. The wagon and historical information about the black men and women who undertook the overland journey to the West is now permanently on exhibit at the Marshall Gold Fields State Park in Coloma, California and is used year-round as an educational resource for thousands of students and other visitors to the park.

At the time of his death, Joe had developed and was directing the Sitka Project, a recreation of California’s first steamboat, the Sitka, a bold business venture of black pioneer William Alexander Leidesdorff in 1847.

The project will continue and when completed the Sitka will be docked in Old Sacramento as a teaching resource for educators, students, and visitors who will learn about African Americans in early Sacramento, the delta waterways, and the ethnic diversity of the region.

After a long and courageous battle, Joe Louis Moore succumbed to cancer on April 20, 2015.

He is survived by his wife of 46 years Dr. Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, professor of history (emerita) at California State University, Sacramento; brothers Raymond Moore, Jr., B.T. Moore, and Manuel Moore; sisters Joyce “Tiny” Watson, Darlene Duncan, Jeannie Moore, and a host of nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.

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‘Black Studies is inclusivity and community’: ‘Black to Front’ symposium celebrates department renaming

Black to Front Symposium celebrates department renaming


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The Department of African American Studies celebrated its renaming to Black Studies in a Friday symposium titled “Black to Front.” 

In April 2008, the department voted unanimously to change its name. According to the formal name change proposal, the new title aims to better reflect “the breadth of its scholarship and teaching” by expanding beyond U.S.-centric boundaries. The formal change will occur in the next few months, pending final approval by Northwestern’s Board of Trustees.

“Black Studies is inclusivity and community,” said SESP freshman Noelle Robinson, who served as an emcee during Friday’s event. “I am Black, African American and Jamaican American. It validates all of our Black histories and ancestors, not only the ones to live in this country.” 

The event featured two keynote speakers, student creatives, a faculty roundtable and a graduate student panel. Speakers and artists also selected Black music interludes to play ahead of their discussions and performances, ranging from Thundercat’s “Them Changes” to Little Simz’s “Point and Kill.”

Political science, sociology and African American Studies Prof. Barnor Hesse, who also served as an emcee, said Black music is part of Black history and studies. He encouraged attendees to “to work through, think through and feel through” the art in the symposium. 

Hesse also discussed the relationships between Black studies and the world. While many disciplines exclude or refrain from including Black experiences, ideas and perspectives, Black studies prioritizes these experiences. In turn, Hesse said it “cannot avoid” critically examining Western epistemology, instead of assuming it is the standard. 

“Black Studies doesn’t just see democracy. It sees democracy and white supremacy. The only democracy we’ve ever known in Western society is a white democracy,” Hesse said. “Black Studies doesn’t just see Western civilization. It sees as the conditions of Western civilization, Western barbarism. So you see, with that angle of vision, how the world seems to tilt almost on its axis.” 

Trinity College Prof. Davarian Baldwin, who teaches American studies and serves as founding director of the Smart Cities Research Lab, was the first keynote speaker. In his talk, “Black Studies and Thoughts on an Abolitionist University,” Baldwin pointed toward the relationship between Black Studies, African American Studies and the education debate in the U.S. 

Baldwin argued while the ongoing debate about controlling curricula in higher education revolves around certain controversial topics like AP African American Studies, arguments center on censoring ideas that Black Studies promotes. 

“Higher education was never designed to serve at the sight of democratic possibilities, but actually the symbol of exclusion and privilege of inheritance,” he said. “Black Studies always understood the broader campus complex as a site of struggle for liberatory possibility … they understood that the higher education institute — the campus — was the battleground for global hegemony.” 

Black studies originated at the intersection between the campus and the broader community, Baldwin said. For example, in 1968, Columbia University students in the Black Panther Party organized a movement known as Gym Crow, which criticized the potential construction of a university gym in nearby Morningside Park.

The gym would have created a physical barrier between the Harlem neighborhood and the campus, but he said students and residents occupied the administration buildings to put a stop to its construction. 

Modern-day diversity, equity and inclusion efforts — which center on diversifying curricula, faculty and students — have used diversity to “meet administration and corporate needs of brand management,” Baldwin said, moving away from the intentions of Black Studies.

Baldwin said he recommends coupling DEI with the principles of abolition, reparations, investment and security, known as ARIS.

“(ARIS) is built on the 1960s liberation moment to see the campus as a site for not just the production of knowledge, but a core fulcrum and today’s knowledge economy,” Baldwin said. “(Black Studies) was directly engaging the role that higher education was playing within the political economy and American empire.” 

A roundtable with history and African American Studies Prof. Sherwin Bryant, religious studies Prof. KB Dennis Meade, Communication and African American Studies Prof. Dotun Ayobade and African American Studies Prof. Kennetta Perry then discussed the question: “What is the Black in Black studies?” 

The panelists then explored the topic by examining how Black Studies functions across the world. 

Ayobade said many Africans would not call themselves Black, but many trends that have started in Africa were inspired by Black Power movements challenging colonialism worldwide. For instance, in the 1970s many Nigerian artists smoked marijuana, practiced nudity and made music as part of a global movement of Black anti-colonial resistance, he said. 

Ayobade added scholars often do not address the modern complexities of Africa in their studies.  

“Africa tends to show up as a kind of historic, ancestral space of origin, when in fact, Africans continually engage with the legacies of empire colonialism,” Ayobade said.

Following the panel, Communication freshman Cydney Hope Brown shared her poetry. Through her work, she discussed her experiences with grief and pride. Over the summer, Brown said she plans to write a series of poems from the vantage point of famous Black women in history to inspire young Black girls. 

She then recited a poem entitled “Black Girl,” which she said depicts her refusal to let other peoples’ assumptions control her worldview. Self-love is an active choice, Brown said, and is important to her lifestyle. 

Culture and film critic Zeba Blay, who served as the second keynote speaker at Friday’s event, gave a talk titled, “What it Means to be Black and Carefree in an Unfree World.” Her speech centered freedom, which she said requires the unpacking of fear. 

Being a “fat, dark-skinned, immigrant, queer, neurodivergent Black woman” comes with inherited traumas, she said. Though she experiences fear, Blay said, she has resonated with radical Black artists like Nina Simone, who have created “portals to dream.” 

“I exist in a world that consistently devalues people like me, a world that simultaneously ignores and actively perpetuates the violences, both physical and spiritual, against folks who look and live like me,” Blay said. “The world has always been chaotic, dangerous (and) precarious for Black folk.”

Blay wrote a 2021 collection of essays titled “Carefree Black Girls,” which paints a portrait of Black women in pop culture as a way to explore representation, rest and liberation. In 2013, she was the first to use #CarefreeBlackGirl on Twitter after coming across a video of 20th-century Black movie star and dancer Josephine Baker dancing. 

Blay said she was enthralled by Baker’s movements, which exuded freedom, and wondered how she could channel similar energy into her own life. Though Blay wrote about carefreeness and celebration, she felt trapped and unfree — a tension Blay wanted to explore in her own writing. 

Carefreeness can be a tool to fight for freedom, but Blay said defining freedom is an “elusive task.” The U.S. uses freedom as a branding tool intertwined with a sense of entitlement and violence, she added. 

Blay said she aimed to understand how to claim carefreeness as less of a performative gesture on social media, but rather as a “lived, embodied experience.” Freedom encompasses the political, social and economic dimensions of Black life, she said, while carefreeness centers the spiritual dimension. Blay added freedom and carefreeness need each other to survive. 

“Freedom requires sober dedication. It requires work,” Blay said. “Being carefree entails experiencing ease, joy, lightness and liberation, despite the overwhelming fear.” 

Jay Dugar contributed reporting. 

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‘Very few people’ reach Taylor Swift’s level, says Hitchin & Harpenden MP

Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, and Fleetwood Mac turn out to be among his favourite artists.

The Pop and Politics podcast has just launched, and Mr Afolami was the MP to feature in its first episode.

During the episode, Hitchin and Harpenden’s MP talked about growing up listening to African-American artists such as Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones, with the latter being “a hero” in his family’s house.

While he said that he’s “never really been into Afrobeats”, Mr Afolami did out himself as a big hip-hop fan.

“I really find the American hip-hop exceptionally good. I find these guys so talented … hip-hop has been under-appreciated in British culture for its lyrical and intellectual and historical and cultural brilliance, and excitement, and dynamism, and that’s why I love it.”

He pointed to the personal stories of top hip-hop artists as part of the reason for his enjoyment of the genre. 

Mr Afolami pointed to some of the early artists, talking about “how they were shut out of the mainstream music industry, and how that forced them to create their own vehicles that actually has made them a hell of a lot richer than the typical singers or white artists that were taken up by the mainstream at the time”.


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The MP said that his own background as a black person who went to Eton and worked in the City was “a bit scrambling for people”, with half thinking “you must be listening to hip-hop in Croydon” and another half thinking “you listen to classical music”.

He criticised the perception that different types of music are for people from different backgrounds.

“I think [that] is deeply insulting but also alienating for a young black kid in Croydon who really likes listening to Bach and Beethoven, and thinks nobody is going to take him seriously because he’s meant to be listening to something else.”

Mr Afolami did say that he thought his tastes were “depressingly mainstream”, before revealing his admiration for Taylor Swift.

“What I love about Taylor Swift … is how talented she is, just the insane talent that she demonstrates, I think, is phenomenal.

“As a pop artist, her core pop music, her ability to write a really good pop song – there are very few people who reach her level on a consistent basis.”

However, Swift isn’t Mr Afolami’s favourite artist. That title goes to Jay-Z, with his Watch the Throne album in collaboration with Kanye West being singled out as a particular highlight.

Mr Afolami said that watching them perform songs from the album live at the O2 Arena in London was “brilliant”.

You can listen to the podcast in full on Spotify.

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Bringing poetry to the city is a dream come true for these immigrant Utah women

The space for Poetry on Main may seem sparse for now, but the owner’s dreams of what it will become are limitless.

As owner Michaëlle Martial, a Haitian poet, imagines it: The new space in an apartment building at 702 S. Main in Salt Lake City will become a hub of creativity and community — a gathering place for everyone, but especially Black women artists and immigrants like herself.

“The idea has started to form in my mind, I want to say, since 2013,” Martial said. “My kids and I drew up a plan one day of a space where I can share my poetry and also invite other local poets and artists who share the space to share their work.”

Martial arrived in Utah in 2000, and has been sharing her poetry in the Salt Lake area since 2012. She had been working a lot with other poets in the community, but realized there was a lack of a physical space where they could all gather regularly. (She registered her LLC, Caribbean Nightingale, in 2020.)

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Poetry on Main co-owner Michaelle Martial holds a photo of her mother Gladys on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Poetry on Main’s store Gladys Boutiques offers a small selection of books by Black authors and tasteful collections of handmade goods by local artisans, inspired by the life of Martial’s mother. A trained fashion designer and seamstress, chef and entrepreneur, Gladys Martial made consistent efforts to empower women in her community in Haiti and fuels creative endeavors in her daughter.

With her three, soon to be four, collections of poetry, it’s an understatement to say that words mean a lot to Martial.

“I wanted the word ‘poetry’ to show in the space, to emphasize it because poetry’s not dead,” Martial said. “We don’t realize how important and influential the word or words are around people.”

Martial speaks from experience, as a survivor of domestic violence. “[I] was mostly affected through psychological and emotional abuse,” she said, “So I know the power of words.”

‘You belong here’

The space is scheduled to have its official ribbon cutting sometime in June, with the Utah Black Chamber. Even before that, the storefront is filled with tokens of love, legacy and culture.

Photos of Martial’s mother, Gladys, who is a fashion designer. A letter board sign on a shelf in the kitchen reads “You belong here,” and sits next to a Haitian spice grinder Gladys gave Martial when she left for college. The wall decor includes a lime-green plate with a map of the departments and states of Haiti. On a table sits a black water bottle, designed by Martial, with the motto, “Resilience is my secret power.”

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Poetry on Main’s Wednesday, May 10, 2023, A Rwandan basket and doll and other African works of art will be for sale at the cafe. Poetry on Main is an non-profit Afro-Caribbean artisan gift shop and poetry lounge.

Martial said she plans to add bookshelves, where she will highlight other Afro-Caribbean authors, with an emphasis on local authors. The store has room for Afro-Caribbean accessories for sale, such as earrings and other handmade goods. Eventually, Martial plans to set up a stage for slam poetry and open-mic performances.

Martial said she has three programs in mind already: “Relaxation Through Verse”, a poetry salon that will be offered the second Saturday of every month; “Cupcakes for Breakfast,” a book-signing event that will offer sweet treats; and a platform for Utah writers of African descent.

Another idea in the works is “Dinner and a Show,” which Martial is devising with Yvonne Nsabimana, from the nonprofit Ngoma Y’Africa cultural center. Nsabimana is from Rwanda, by way of Belgium, and first came to Utah in 2005.

The pair originally came up with the idea of “Taste the Culture,” a venture where several African American and Black women would come together to share cultural food, during the NBA All-Star Weekend in February. (Instead, they ended up losing thousands of dollars.)

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Poetry on Main co-owner Michaelle Martial points to the department or state where the native Haitian was born on a decorative dish at the cafe on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Poetry on Main is an non-profit Afro-Caribbean artisan gift shop and poetry lounge.

In some ways, Poetry on Main will be a chance at redemption for some of the vendors affected from the failed All-Star Bazaar, Martial said. Many of the vendors will sell their goods at Poetry on Main, such as Karicka Soul, which sells hair oils.

The concept, Msabimana said, is to foster “this idea of looking for women chefs and entrepreneurs — women wanting to move forward their lives and provide for themselves and their families.”

The menu for “Dinner and a Show” includes beignets, Haitian pikliz, jollof rice with chicken and more.

The women also are playing around with the idea of having a permanent food truck open outside the Poetry on Main space.

Giving back to the community

Marital and Nsabimana said they plan to give back to community resources in Utah that have helped them over the years. A portion of all of the proceeds made at the poetry salon will be donated to local women shelters.

As a mother — two of her four children were born in Utah — and a domestic violence survivor, Martial said, “I’ve utilized resources in the community, whether it’s therapy for me, my children or group therapy.” She referenced the YWCA as a great resource.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Poetry on Main co-owner Michaelle Martial’s poetry books; Of Love & Lust: A Caribbean Woman’s Magic!, The Nightingale’s New Song: A Black Woman’s Poetic Notes and The Nightingale Woman’s Prayers: Poems on Faith and Healing on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Poetry on Main is an non-profit Afro-Caribbean artisan gift shop and poetry lounge.

“I may be many things, but ungrateful is not one of them,” Martial said, with a laugh. “Going around in those spaces, I found out that I was not alone. Those organizations need support. … We have an opportunity to make a difference.”

Nsabimana added that “community thrives because of nonprofit organizations.”

Nsabimana said she also has been on the receiving end of aid in Utah. Nsabimana has been a refugee twice in her life — first from Rwanda, and second when she and her husband fled from Hurricane Katrina to Utah.

She said the most powerful service she’s ever seen in her life happened when they came to Utah. “People in the community who didn’t know us were willing to give either a sheet for the bed, help pay rent, or different things. There’s nowhere else I’ve ever seen this than Utah,” she said.

At times, Nsabimana said, Utah isn’t perfect — but it is welcoming, and the people here have a good heart.

“It’s the least we can do if we’re able to give back,” she said.

‘Strong mothers’

Poetry on Main is dedicated to one of Martial’s mentors: Poet, painter and musician Benjamin Cabey, a resident of Salt Lake City and a pioneer in uplifting Black artists in Utah. He coached Martial on how to organize events and perform her poetry, she said. He also encouraged her, she said, to let her real self show to the world.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Poetry on Main co-owner Michaelle Martial, pictured in their 702 Main store kitchen on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 will offer Afro-Caribbean gifts, food, poetry and music this summer.

For Nsabimana, having a space for other entrepreneurs and immigrants to get advice feels like a much-needed breath of fresh air. Having a space to belong makes things feel more concrete, more recognizable, she said.

“This is actually the first space ever open to Afro-Caribbean women in Salt Lake City, in Utah in general,” she said. “We know a lot of these women because we’ve been here for a while.”

Black and African women, Nsabimana said, are very strong. It’s a product of their cultures.

“We both have very strong mothers,” she said, “and we believe a lot of women are that way, especially in our community. … It’s a culture that doesn’t give you mercy. You have to stay on top of things, do what you have to do, you feed your family, you take care of your husbands [and] you are an entrepreneur at the same time.”

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Poetry on Main co-owner Yvonne Nsabimana, pictured in the 702 Main store kitchen on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 will offer Afro-Caribbean gifts, food, poetry and music this summer.

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