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Artist Kadir Nelson Celebrates Black American Heroes In New Picture Book

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by Ayanna Nicole

April 4, 2019

In a new picture book titled The Undefeated, artist Kadir Nelson brings Kwame Alexander’s “This One Is For Us” poem to life through...

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The Smithsonian Acquires Striking Portrait Of Henrietta Lacks, The Mother Of Modern Medicine

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by Ayanna Nicole

May 14, 2018

Born in rural Virginia in 1920, Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman who was diagnosed and died of aggressive cervical cancer at...