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A Celebration of the Harlem Renaissance opens Feb. 27 with
Reflections of the Harlem Renaissance: The Legacy Continues, an exhibit featuring works by 12 artists honoring the spirit of the era while also drawing connections and sparking conversations.
With COVID-19 keeping people in their homes and limiting events, Juneteenth Cincinnati President Lydia Morgan says, We wanted to have something that was really sparkling and banging and showing the good life of African Americans in a time when there was a lot of bad things still going on.
The Harlem Renaissance is considered a golden age in African American culture, running from the 1910s-1930s and centered in the New York neighborhood where many people settled after moving north to find a better life. Morgan wants all people, especially children, to see images from that time showing Black people in a positive light.
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A local Cincinnati teacher s play jumped from the stage to the screen recently, and now his movie is getting a commercial television premiere early Christmas Day. Writer Willie James Jones piece
Santa Goes Straight to the Hood airs at 3 a.m on Fox 19.
The movie tells the story of a blind girl in tough circumstances who makes an unselfish Christmas wish in a letter she writes to Santa. She also reveals other conflicting issues, you know, that reached a climax as she pursues that true reason for the Christmas season, he said.
Jones wrote the play while he was a teacher at Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School with a theme intended to bring peace to the streets. The play was originally written and performed for audiences at the Kennedy Heights Arts Center about four years ago. Since then, it s undergone a lot of changes, like writing out characters and changing the point of view to the young girl s perspective for the movie.
Local Playwright s Movie Santa Goes Straight To The Hood Airing Christmas Eve wvxu.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wvxu.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.