A national Black LGBTQ advocacy group is renewing the call for the U.S. Postal Service to honor deceased gay Black civil rights leader Bayard Rustin with a stamp.
SAN MATEO ARTIST JARED SINES SHARES ABOUT HIS LIFELONG LOVE OF PAINTING. It has been 58 years since San Mateo artist Jared Sines began showing his paintings at Shreve and Co. in San Francisco. Since then, there have been numerous venues for Sinesâ work, and throughout January The Portola Art Gallery in Menlo Park presents âMy Favorite Things to Paintâ â a selection of the artistâs recent and vintage works. Sines talks about the oil painting set that got him started, teachers who made a difference, and his upcoming virtual gallery reception.
DJ: How did you become interested in the arts?
civil rights and human rights in the united states that actually the schaumberg center s going to be looking at in an upcoming event on march 30th and which is certainly the subject of a whole different discussion. but it s one of the things that s very inspiring in his story, is that he saw so clearly that indignity and injustice against african-americans was connected to the discrimination and the struggles the discrimination against so many, so many voices. and so i was wondering if you could start off by talking a little bit about what brought you to tell his story. tell us more about him and what makes him so compelling and exciting as a figure. sure. first, let me say that it s great to be with all of you and especially great to be near the schaumberg archives. i have used the archives so many times. so many thanks to schaumberg archives for assists me in my research along the way. [applause] indeed, i agree. i try to let my projects arise organically one from anoth
that was the case during slave society. we only have a minute. do you have any idea why the washington post made such a big difference of it? i think it was in the aftermath finding the person saying she is not her daughter and he is not her father, and somebody having, spent a lot of time doing it, it is certainly a tiltlating story. ly i have to say again, that the reason it is interesting to us in terms of political story is the length of his career and the change he has seen. some of when he put to against and survived. which is how you learn about political systems. what did does he think of the book? i don t know. he hasn t said a word to pee. he has spoken positively to me about it said to me that it was a fair presentation of the senator s career. this is what the book looks like. the politics of southern change. thank you very much for joining us. the redesigned book notes website features over 800 notable non-fiction authors interviewed about thes bo