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February 1, 2021
Cornel West in Conversation with Margo Natalie Crawford of the Center for Africana StudiesIn the Jan. 27 event, West testified to King’s legacy and its place in the rich tradition of Black artists and thinkers, citing the concept of a “A Love Supreme,” referencing both John Coltrane’s album along with the higher truth to which Coltrane aspired, the vision to create “a force for good tied to tenderness and beauty. Cornel West invoked African American intellectualism and musical history in what Margo Natalie Crawford called “a visionary jam session for social justice.”
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February 1, 2021
Senior Dennis Sungmin Kim Hand-Drawn Animated Short FilmsKim’s latest completed creation, “The Beginning,” his third film to win top honors in the Penn Student Film Festival, is now streaming on the commercial online platform Film Movement Plus. Using pencils, markers, and watercolors, Dennis paints and draws by hand hundreds of pages of illustrations to create his award-winning animated short films.
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January 27, 2021
Announcing Fall 2020 Student Grant AwardsWe are happy to announce the recipients of The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation’s Fall 2020 Student Grants. Ten projects were funded in a range of practices and areas of inquiry, including ethnographic filmmaking, multimedia storytelling, interactive sculpture, journalism, revisionary map making, illustration, and photography.
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January 12, 2021
Composer Tyshawn Sorey Enters a New PhaseOn March 6, hardly a week before the pandemic lockdown began, close to a hundred people packed into the Jazz Gallery in New York City to hear a new sextet led by the drummer Tyshawn Sorey. The Newark native has long been lauded for his brilliant abstractions. Lately he’s writing about something more concrete. The death of the great jazz pianist McCoy Tyner was announced that day, and as we waited for the band to go on, his 1967 album, “The Real McCoy."
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January 12, 2021
Penn Student Writes Near Perfect YA Novel with Her Sister, “One of The Good Ones”Maritza Moulite is a first-year doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. The 30-year-old Moulite just published her second young-adult novel, One of the Good Ones. Like the first one, it was written with her sister, Maika Moulite, 32, a doctoral student in communications at Howard University. One of the Good Ones tells the story of Kezi Smith, a young activist whose death in police custody after a protest makes national headlines.