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Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor looks towards future as tourist destination
The heritage corridor is working with an award winning design firm to develop a plan to create a tourist designation and strengthen the community.
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The Freedom Wall was created in 2017 by four Buffalo-based artists: John Baker, Julia Bottoms-Douglas, Chuck Tingley, and Edreys Wajed. The panels show 28 civil rights leaders at the entrance to the Michigan Street African-American Heritage Corridor. Author: WGRZ Staff Updated: 10:32 AM EST February 22, 2021
BUFFALO, N.Y. The Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission is making moves towards building its area into a tourist destination while also strengthening its assets and the community.
Painting the presence of freedom
By ILANG-ILANG QUIJANO
– John Berger, writer and cultural critic
The absence of basic rights and freedoms. The void left by a person killed or unjustly imprisoned for their beliefs. Land that is taken away, intrepid voices that are stifled, entire cultures that are destroyed.
Such were the absences that several freshly painted murals along the University of the Philippines-Diliman’s Freedom Wall along Katipunan Avenue attempt to make present. They are the products of a live mural painting session organized by the Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP), SINAGBAYAN (Sining na Naglilingkod sa Bayan), and Sama-Samang Artista Para sa Kilusang Agraryo (SAKA) last February 14, in celebration of National Arts Month.