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Bridgeport artist confronts blackface imagery to address and educate in solo show Ashley Winchester FacebookTwitterEmail Claude Desir Jr. knows something about history. But, he’s had to work for it. “I never learned too much about African history or African American history in school. I did that on my own. But it always made me wonder why I was always learning about other pieces of history but (not) my own history,” Desir says. “Then when I did my own research and was getting into other stuff, it made more sense: There’s a lot of bad times.” Today, the Bridgeport artist is confronting those bad times with “Sometimes i don’t feel like im really here,” a solo exhibit at City Lights Gallery in Bridgeport on view through Feb. 24.

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